For Barbara Beirne, being a photographer meant building a relationship of trust and collaboration with her subjects and using ...

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After the Civil War, thousands of Americans poured into the Great Plains on a collision course with western Indian tribes.

Coveting what remained of the Indian lands in the Southeast and lower South, the United States forced tribes to cede their ...

But it also wanted, in the words of President Woodrow Wilson, to “make the world safe for democracy.” The United States ...

War production devoured cotton, silk, nylon, wool, leather, and rubber and little was left for civilian clothes or shoes.

Struggling as an independent country, the Republic of Texas sought to become part of the United States. Although many in ...

America went to war against Spain to free Cuba from Spanish domination. But the war provided the United States an opportunity ...

America went to war against Great Britain to assert its rights as an independent, sovereign nation, and to attempt the ...

The Battle of Bull Run, the first major clash in the Civil War, ended in a Confederate victory. It shattered illusions that ...

In the opening struggles for control of Europe, the United States used economic aid to support the democracies of Western ...

The soldiers were young and inexperienced, most in their teens or early twenties. In the North, they were farmers and factory ...