This week in our series, Kay Gallant and Harry Monroe continue our story of the Civil War with the Battle of Vicksburg.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

He closed his speech with the hope that the nation would come out of the war with greater unity than ever before.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

"Let me say this as clearly as I can: The United States is not, and will never be, at war with Islam."

VOA: special.2009.04.11

As we do,we must also reaffirm that the United States is not -- and never will be -- at war with Islam."

VOA: special.2011.05.07

He became an officer in the Army during America's war with Mexico in the late eighteen forties.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

In London,the British government decided that Oregon was not worth a war with the United States.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

The United States created the Peace Corps during the cold war with the Soviet Union.

VOA: special.2010.09.23

We went to war with Spain,they said, to free Cuba from its colonial masters...

VOA: special.2010.07.22

They were at war with the local Indians and came into the valley.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

The dispute grew more threatening after the war with Mexico in eighteen forty-nine.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

The commander of a United States navy force in the Pacific, Thomas Jones, received news that led him to believe the United States was at war with Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

Britain had declared war with Spain in fifteen eighty.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

America's war with Spain was over.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

And in 1961, during the Cold War with the Soviet Union, John Kennedy urged people to take an active part in the future: "And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.

VOA: special.2009.01.19