That history is on display in La Crosse, Kan., at the Kansas Barbed Wire Museum. You can see more than 2,000 unique varieties of the vital tool, which corralled livestock and, in many ways ...

Still, federal immigration enforcement officials have been busy putting up additional miles of concertina wire, a type of barbed wire meant to be a “deterrence” to illicit drugs and individuals ...

Stretching 440 miles from the Swiss border to the North Sea, the line of trenches, dug-outs and barbed-wire fences moved very little between 1914-1918, despite attempts on both sides to break through.

Barbed wire has been put up on a popular walking route in Quarndon. Kedleston Estate owns the land and has erected the fencing along what is known as a permissive footpath at Bunkers Hill.