American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

After 27 years of enjoying the little house sparrows that lived in my huge pine tree, watching them rush to the feeder or splash in the bird bath, I went to fill the bird feeder, and it was still full ...

One can hardly imagine what the night of Feb. 17, 1865, must have been like in Charleston. Hours before surrendering to Union ...

From New York state to Virginia and back to Cattaraugus County, the 37th New York Regimental Presentation Flag has a storied ...

Four years after Myanmar’s military coup, the country’s civil war remains deeply unpredictable. If one word could define the ...

Born in 1846, Wiegel served in the Civil War with the 189th Ohio volunteer infantry before moving to Irwin. He lived in the borough nearly six decades, working as borough tax collector from 1902 ...