A Civil War veteran born into slavery in Louisiana is among nine Union soldiers with new grave markers at Greenfield Cemetery ...

This episode explores the beginnings of the American Civil War, from deepening divisions over slavery to the firing on Fort ...

Modern American business and government were shaped directly and indirectly by a military model of administration During the war, writes Mark R. Wilson in "The Business of Civil War." ...

The Battle of Gettysburg raged from July 1 through July 3 in 1863, and was the turning point of the American Civil War. Some people spend years studying to become licensed guides at the site of ...

The Civil War was the deadliest conflict ever fought on American soil with approximately 620,000 fatalities, according to History.com. Recent analysis could even suggest these numbers are higher ...

And on the fiction shelves, you can pick up a paperback of Omar El Akkad’s 2017 novel, “American War,” a grim vision of environmental destruction, youth radicalization, internally displaced ...

The Civil War started in April 1861 and raged for over four years. From Fort Sumter to Appomattox and beyond, here are the most basic facts you need.

I fear that there is a looming civil war on the horizon. It is not yet inevitable, but all true American patriots must be prepared for the coming battle. And the costs in blood will be heavy. This ...

Even so, the American Civil War was relatively contained compared with what happened to Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution, to Bosnia after the breakup of Yugoslavia, or to Congo from 1998 to 2003.

The families of American Civil War veterans offer new evidence of trauma's long shadow. In a study focused on the children of Union soldiers who were held in Confederate prisoner of war camps ...

In the living room of his house in Rappahannock, Virginia, filmmaker Ron Maxwell brings up the 2008 book from which that quote is drawn: This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War.

--In his sec ond volume on the American Civil War the Count of Paris brings down the narrative of military events to the great defeat of the Federal Army at Fredericksburg. We have already ...