On November 8, 1861, a U.S. navy warship stopped a British packet and seized two Confederate emissaries on their way to England to seek backing for their cause.

"Stars and Stripes" celebrates the history and symbolism of the flag. Full color.

For sixty years, the United States has supported European integration on a bipartisan basis—not only because this has served European interests, but because i

The Stars and Stripes trilogy is the story of the war that never was, but might so easily have happened: the war of the 1860s between the United States of Ameri

In a war room in Washington, William Tecumseh Sherman and General Robert E. Lee huddle together and plan their next, joint military operation. In the jungles of