As the final months of the American Civil War unfolded, we follow how a long-fractured nation moved from brutal fighting ...

Editor's Note: Shauna Devine, Ph.D., is a historian of Civil War and American medicine. She has a Ph.D. in medical history and currently holds a joint appointment as a research fellow at the Schulich ...

You want to learn more about the Civil War, right? Of course you do. It is a significant part of U.S. history that continues to impact Americans today. From 1861 to 1865, bloody battles were waged ...

William Faulkner famously wrote, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." That could describe some of the recent historical discourse on the presidential campaign trail. First came Republican ...

The bottom of Lake Michigan, a field in Pennsylvania... What became of that lost Civil War gold? Does it even exist? We ...

Virginia has a rich history with many chapters, including the American Civil War, which forever changed our nation. Stories of the Civil War and its legacies will be presented in a new dimension at ...

Matt VanAcker said the conservation efforts will allow visitors to view the flag as it was when it returned to the county in ...

The 1850s and 1860s in America saw the rise of the “sentimental domestic idea.” Women were held up as examples of purity, piety, and submissiveness. In the American antebellum period, precise and ...

The Inland Empire Civil War Round Table will host two programs in February, a virtual program Feb. 19 on African American soldiers’ contributions in the Civil War, and an in-person presentation by ...

Cecily Zander, an assistant professor of history at the University of Wyoming, has earned the 2025 Center for Civil War Research’s Wiley-Silver Prize for the best first book in Civil War history. This ...

In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its ...

Burns' six-part documentary uses voiceover, reenactors and drone footage to tell the story of America's founding. And it ...