There were three reasons to celebrate Holy Week in April 1865: The resurrection of Jesus Christ, the end of the Civil War, and a resurrection of the self-consciousness of freed black men and ...

Looking back on the Civil War in his 1882 “Specimen Days & Collect,” Walt Whitman reflected that “the real war will never get in the books.” He had tried, in “Drum-Taps” (1865), a ...

The episode will focus on the events of Jan. 25, 1865, when 22 Civil War soldiers were ambushed by outlaws and killed, while 20 more were injured, during a cattle drive to Louisville.