It would be the U.S. Navy’s biggest defeat until World War II and threatened to change the balance of power in American waters. The power brokers in Washington panicked. Everyone except Navy Secretary ...

One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

One hundred fifty years ago, about 80 miles southeast of Litchfield in Mankato, Minn., a tragedy unfolded. The war that started with a few scattered attacks across Meeker County in August 1862, ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack ... not to free slaves. But by 1862, Lincoln was considering emancipation as a necessary step toward winning the war.

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

In Les Damnés, Roberto Minervini plunges into the heart of the winter of 1862, where American soldiers in the midst of the American Civil War question the meaning of their mission in uncharted lands.

Shiloh National Military Park in Tennessee was the site of a bloody Civil War battle to control the Confederate Railroads. Shiloh National Military Park encompasses much of the April 1862 Civil ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people ... announced on this day in 1862, was immensely controversial and hounded him for years Eli Wizevich The decline of the American ...

“A house divided against itself, cannot stand.’ I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.” 37 —Abraham Lincoln The Civil War was about slavery, although ...