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Cathedral State Park is home to the last virgin timber tract in West Virginia! Some of these massive hemlocks were saplings ...

Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park lets you do just that! This park marks the site of West Virginia’s last major Civil War ...

Famous for rugged landscapes and the Appalachian mountains, West Virginia is one of America’s most underrated states.

As most of the 120,000-man Army of the Potomac navigated the Rappahannock River and took the colonial town of Fredericksburg, Virginia ... battle alone. It was the most lopsided battle in the war ...

In this new episode of Kings and Generals’ Civil War series, we cover the Battle of Fredericksburg—one of the bloodiest and most devastating defeats suffered by the Union Army. As General ...

Andrew Stanton is a Newsweek weekend reporter based in Maine. His role is reporting on U.S. politics and social issues. Andrew joined Newsweek in 2021 from The Boston Globe. He is a graduate of ...

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Hamburger Hill, Hué, the Ia Drang Valley, Khe Sanh: some remember the Vietnam war battles from the headlines of the 1960s and ’70s, others from films and history books. And thousands of ...

The second Sudanese civil war from 1983 to 2005 killed an estimated two million people, with widespread documentation of famine and atrocities. In July 2011, Sudan’s southern territory seceded ...

the civil war. The brutal 15-year conflict was marked by sectarian violence and shifting front lines. In the capital Beirut, some buildings still bear the scars of battle. Others have been rebuilt ...

As the civil war continues to rage on in Sudan, fighting is intensifying in the west, cutting off civilians' access to aid. FRANCE 24 speaks to Doctors Without Borders (MSF)'s head of mission in ...