Civil War surgeons learned fast. Here are a few of the MacGyver-like medical solutions that have had a lasting impact.

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

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

It is widely agreed that “subject to the jurisdiction” excluded the children of diplomats, Native Americans subject and with ...

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

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

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

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