The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount ...

An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...

"Lincoln’s Peace" examines the difficulty in turning wartime victory into solving the political and social problems that led ...

The musicians of the Union and Confederate armies provided strong memories of the homes left behind for the battlefield. Fact or Fiction? The Legend of the QWERTY Keyboard (03:36) What Does a ...

Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second ...

Richard Kreitner's "Fear No Pharoah" gives an honest account of how Jews resisted, ignored and even championed American ...

Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Elsewhere in the country, parts of the rebel army ...

Forest Home is the final resting place for nearly 1,000 Union soldiers who served in the Civil War, making it the private ...

The rights of Americans to self-determine how to educate their children — a hotly contested matter that stretches back to at ...