More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to the outbreak of the bloodiest conflict in the history of North America? A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the ...

The Civil War, an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and produced in conjunction with WETA, Washington, D.C., first aired in September of 1990 to an ...

The issue of slavery divided the United States long before the election of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. After the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed in 1854, newly established states could use ...

but popular explorations of the term “civil war” don’t go far enough. Abraham Lincoln at Antietam during the Civil War. (Getty Images) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of ...

For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage facilities at a funeral home and cemetery in Seattle. The simple copper and ...

Releasing a movie called Civil War in this election year is certainly one way to grab headlines. Surprisingly, though, Alex Garland's ambitious new thriller largely sidesteps the politics of the ...

Civil War, the new A24 film from British director Alex Garland, imagines a scenario that might not seem so far-fetched to some; a contemporary civil war breaking out in the United States.

Nervous before combat, the infantry got chatty and revealed deep knowledge of Civil War history. “Of course the war was about slavery,” Confederate Sergeant Matthew Connor said. “Read any st ...

For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage facilities at a funeral home and cemetery in Seattle. The simple copper and ...