New research is shedding light on a 40-acre military camp for Black soldiers that fanned out from the southeast corner of ...

Continue the deep dive into the American Civil War with Part 2, focusing on the crucial battles of 1861 that set the tone for years of bloody conflict. From Fort Sumter to Ball's Bluff, these ...

Between 1861 and 1865, the Union, or northern states, and the Confederacy, or southern states, fought each other in the American Civil War. A major dispute over slavery was the primary cause of ...

Civil War, 1861-1865 Call number E468 W46 2005 Type Books Physical description 63 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 27 x 31 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) Place United States Data ...

A People's History of the Civil War: Struggles to Expand America's Freedom, 1861–1865 David Williams, . . New Press, $29.95 (594pp) ISBN 978-1-59558-018-4 ...

1861: The Lost Peace. By Jay Winik. Grand Central Publishing. 304 pages. $35. More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book with ...

More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book with “April 1865: The Month That Saved America.” His latest book covers the period ...

The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

In 1861, amid the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus in Maryland. Among those detained without trial was John Merryman, ... And right now, Maryland’s history is reminding the ...

Historian Jay Winik writes about the leadup to the outbreak of the Civil War in “1861: The Lost Peace.” The Associated Press' Andrew DeMillo writes that the political intrigue in Winik's book ...

More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book “April 1865: The Month That Saved America." His latest ...