On July 4, the United States of America will celebrate its 250th anniversary. There’s also another major historical ...

WILKES-BARRE – The United States military plans to deactivate the storied 109th Field Artillery, one of the oldest Army National Guard units in the country, and replace it with a new unit that will ...

Civil War historian Ben Varner discussed the explosive history of the 48th Pennsylvania Regiment recently at the Orwigsburg Historical Society. Explosive, indeed. Members of the unit, made up largely ...

Strategy is the focus of most of the modern military historians. Their driving assumption is that strategy is the ‘dog’ and tactics is the ‘tail.’ In other words, strategy shapes the course and ...

In our fast-paced, ultra-modern society, The Civil War—or The War Between the States—seems to be ancient history. It is hard to imagine that at one time, a war divided this nation along geographic ...