One of the major accomplishments during the Civil War was the establishment ... In the decade before the war, American military action consisted of Native American skirmishes and the few wounded ...

Freeman, Yale professor of history and American studies ... and editor who worked in Washington in the lead up to the Civil War. During his four decades in the nation’s capital, he crossed ...

Today’s episode will focus on one of the biggest – and most important – turning points in world history ... day battle occurred during the American Civil War; a major conflict between ...

Freedmen also took up the sport, and in the decades after the Civil War, it's estimated that as many as one in four American cowboys ... greatest bronc riders in history, in Burns, Oregon, 1928.

We usually envision blue and gray armies battling it out east of Arizona when we think of the American Civil ... great many ties to the Civil War, but it does have a history for the battle that ...

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 ...

The American Civil War was arguably one of the most devastating conflicts in the history of the United States. Fought over slavery, it divided families and communities and, of course, the nation.

Last month, Associate Professor of History Michael Vorenberg published his new book, “Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War.” The book challenges the traditional narrative that ...

Here's a look at the history of the American Flag from ... is what the unofficial flag looked like in during the American Revolutionary War in 1776. It was raised to celebrate General George ...

The American Civil War left a bitter legacy ... This is from the series Andrew Marr's History of the World. In pairs, ask pupils to create two contrasting newspaper headlines together with ...