Stanwix, Arizona saw both battlefield action and Wild West lore. From a Civil War skirmish to rumors of Buffalo Bill’s signature on a wall, this former stage stop holds surprising stories.

During the Civil War, animals served in a variety of roles, from transporting supplies to acting as regimental mascots. Brad Stone talked about General Lee's hen, Jeff Davis the marching pig ...

Erie County native Strong Vincent's heroism on July 2, 1863, at the Battle of Gettysburg is not where he first distinguished ...

Once home to guerrillas — for whom it offered an airstrip and a plentiful supply of free-range meat — the Mozambican park has ...

Animals in Peace and War in Mid-Nineteenth Century America. While historians have often written about the role of animals in society and warfare, in this excellent new work Prof. Hess (Lincoln ...

How the Civil War spurred the animal welfare movement “Our Kindred Creatures” tells the story of American abolitionists who, after Emancipation, pivoted from antislavery campaigns to animal ...

The Italian-born filmmaker Roberto Minervini has, until now, focused on documentaries, but his first fiction film bears hallmarks of keen observation and suggestiveness.

At the Camp William Penn Museum in Cheltenham, thousands of Black Civil War soldiers are remembered for their contributions ...

Role of Civil War Animals During the Civil War, animals served in a variety of roles, from transporting supplies to acting as regimental mascots. … About C-SPAN ...

The oldest elephants wandering Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park bear the indelible markings of the civil war that gripped the country for 15 years: Many are tuskless. They’re the lone ...

“The Civil War was so fascinating, so horrible,” he said last weekend. “So many mistakes were made. See, there was something I think could have been negotiated, to be honest with you.

Civil War Reenactors Aren’t Just Play ... Another soldier fixated on how much land had been given over to growing animal feed—and feared what Americans would do to stay fed when the soil was ...