Professor George Pickett, who has died aged 85, invented forms of nuclear refrigeration which helped him to create the lowest temperatures ever recorded. With colleagues in the Physics Department ...

The Civil War is an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers if ...

George E. Pickett, Major General in the Confederate service during the late rebellion, died last evening at Norfolk, Va. He was born in Virginia, and July 1, 1842, was appointed from Illinois to a ...

Named for Confederate General George Pickett, it was first established as Camp Pickett when the Army built it as a combat training ground soon after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Then, in 1974, the ...

The U.S. Army is stripping the names of Confederate generals from bases like Fort Pickett in Virginia, to be replaced with those of American heroes and heroines, including people of color ...