Historians say that Sarah Emma Edmonds exaggerated many aspects of her wartime experiences. Still, she bravely served in the Union Army, becoming one of hundreds of women who fought in the conflict in ...

As the world and its soldiers went over the top and straight into mechanized warfare, the horrors of large-caliber machine guns and artillery warfare ushered in a new age of gruesome deaths and ...

“I found that the orderly burial of men in battle was even more important than I anticipated,” he wrote. “My ideas took shape after 14 days in action in the Argonne Forest. Always, and I remember no ...