In 2025, archaeologists researching the Civil War history of Kentucky found what may be two mass graves near Simpsonville.

The African American Civil War Museum in D.C. marked Juneteenth with a celebration to honor the estimated 6,000 Black ...

The American Civil War is a pivotal and ugly moment in American ... would actually come to an end in the United States. In June 1865, Union troops led by General Gordon Granger arrived in ...

The American Civil War wasn't just a battle between states—it was a showcase of incredible military talent. From 1861 to 1865, certain soldiers earned reputations that struck fear into enemy hearts.

Among the orders issued as Union troops arrived in Texas at the end of the Civil War was one declaring that all enslaved ...

Today is Alabama’s first ever annual observance of Juneteenth. That’s the date back in 1865 when enslaved blacks in Texas ...

He began the Civil War with thoughts only of restoring the Union, but ended up committing the nation to freedom for African-Americans. One of the great unanswerable questions in American history ...

For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished ... important lessons about the 1861-1865 war to preserve the Union, fought between the ...

Now, 160 years later, 70 Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War from 1863 to 1865 will be memorialized ... Archives and the African American Civil War Museum in Washington ...

The Civil War, fought from 1861 to 1865, was the deadliest conflict in American history. It erupted over deeply entrenched divisions over slavery, states’ rights and the preservation of the Union.