In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its ...

The first option was to let the colonies go. The second was to unify the American colonies with Britain the way Scotland had been united with England. Smith himself was Scottish and, looking back, was ...

A rare and unusual event has been taking place over the weekend as two military headstones were unveiled to honour two survivors of the American Civil War here in Derby - one of which was the last ...