A major flash point came when Union soldiers entered Hotel De Afrique and “attacked the defenseless occupants with knives and ...

Even longtime Civil War history buffs learned something new at the Kankakee Valley Historical Society’s event Saturday in ...

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

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.

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, ...

Born in New York City in 1810, Bushrod Birch spent time on and off in Pittsfield before serving in the Civil War, and ...

Slave Trading in the Civil War South A Harper's Weekly illustration of Confederate soldiers driving Black Americans south in 1862 Library of Congress In the late summer of 1865, a few months after ...

Archaeologists Dig a Civil War-Era 'Witch Bottle' Full of Nails; Likely Used as Talisman to Ward off Evil Spirits Researchers ...

It would be the U.S. Navy’s biggest defeat until World War II and threatened to change the balance of power in American ...

Historians consistently rank Abraham Lincoln as the greatest U.S. president. Without his leadership and political brilliance, ...

America’s first IRS commissioner helped raise the vast sums needed to wage the Civil War and was a strong advocate of racial equality.

A pleasant stroll through forests and fields meets Civil War history during walking tours at Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park.