Two days earlier, French President Nicolas Sarkozy was in Germany as thousands of people remembered a different war the Cold War.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

But this is different. It involves the war, the ownership of human beings and the future of the divided nation.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

The project collects remembrances of veterans who served in World War I,World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam War.

VOA: special.2010.11.05

Within the first few weeks of the Civil War, the Confederate Congress voted to move the capital farther north to Richmond,Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

It is named for Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president who led the nation through the Civil War in the eighteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

The White House was the largest house in the country until after the Civil War in the eighteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

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

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

In the early nineteen fifties, she went to Korea to photograph the effects of war on the Korean people.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

But it was not until eighteen fifteen and the Second Barbary War that the power of the Barbary pirates was broken.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

In the American Civil War, the North hoped for a quick victory by capturing the southern capital at Richmond,Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

And later still, during the War of 1812, the Americans defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Champlain.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

Anti-war activists told them that the war was not being fought to save the Union, but to free Negro slaves.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

Abraham Lincoln was the only president in American history to lead the nation during a civil war in the eighteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.02.27