Paul Laurence Dunbar, who wrote during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is credited as one of the first influential Black poets in America. A graduate of Howard University, he was ...

Cincinnati was one of the three famous warhorses owned by American Civil war general and later President Ulysses S. Grant. Cincinnati was the son of Lexington, one of the fastest horses in America.

A book written by an early commander of Colorado Springs’ American Legion Post 5 has returned home, nearly a century after its publication.

Compiled by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. First and Second Series: 1917 and 1919. Two vols., 12mo, xxx + 280, and xxxvii + 387 pp. Each vol., $1.50 cloth ...

Many of the famous US veterans and most passionate anti-war protesters have been those who have experienced war first-hand. For as long as there have been wars, there have been people opposed to war.

Scott Simon speaks with former British poet laureate Andrew Motion about the Folio Society's new anthology, The Folio Book Of War Poetry, a collection ranging from Ancient Greece to the Cold War.

It’s a famous story. In the first winter of World War I, in new trenches on the Western Front, British and German soldiers were starting Christmas celebrations and singing carols.

Six opinionated writers debate — and define — the state of L.G.B.T.Q. writing in order to make a list of the most essential works of fiction, poetry and drama right now.

For as long as there have been wars, there have been people opposed to war. The ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes put a comic spin on the idea back in 411 B.C. with his “Lysistrata,” in ...