Years of disagreement between the North and the South finally burst into civil war in April of eighteen sixty-one.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

Clara Barton started her life as a nurse during the early days of the Civil War in eighteen sixty-one.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

During one event, she noted that German prisoners of war were permitted to sit closer to the stage than black soldiers.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

The United States entered the war in December of nineteen forty-one after Japanese planes attacked the Navy base at Pearl Harbor,Hawaii.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

During World War Two, Dave Brubeck,who is white, formed one of the first racially mixed bands in the Army.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

Now,we probably most often think of doughboys as the soldiers who fought for the Allies in World War One.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

Snoopy dreams of himself as a pilot searching for the Red Baron, a famous German fighter pilot in World War One.

VOA: special.2009.10.25

The war between the United States and Spain in eighteen ninety-eight was one of the shortest in American history.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

The Civil War began in eighteen sixty-one as a struggle over the right of states to leave the Union.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

Twenty years after the Civil War, the Unitedbl States had become one of the leading industrial nations of the world.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

In nineteen seventy-one, The New York Times newspaper started publishing secret government documents about American involvement in the Vietnam War.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

November eleventh,nineteen eighteen, was the day Germany signed a cease-fire agreement with the Allies in World War One.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

This book is widely considered one of the most important books of photographs published since World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

He was the chief military advisor to the Philippine military forces when the United States entered World War Two in December,nineteen forty-one.

VOA: special.2009.05.24