In this photo provided by The Valley Breeze, Civil War re-enactors fold an American flag near an urn, center, containing the cremated remains of Byron R. Johnson, a Union soldier who was born in ...

The search for remains of formerly enslaved Black Union soldiers brutally murdered by angry Southerners as the Civil War was ending. Learn about Camp Nelson, KY, the military base where these ...

In Legacy of Lies, El Salvador 1981-1984, photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg documents how U.S. foreign policy fueled a violent 13-year civil war in El Salvador.

Elizabeth Van Lew, a Southern belle turned Union spymaster, exemplifies true heroism during the Civil War, challenging the diluted modern concept of a hero.

Some 179,000 Black men served in the Union Army during the Civil War and another 19,000 served in the Navy, according to the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

The short-lived Union Army Balloon Corps in the Civil War was in a way the U.S. military's first air force. The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, ...

Members of the Blue and Gray Brigade Civil War reenactment group fire a gun salute during a ceremony Monday in Irwin’s Union Cemetery. The ceremony was held at the gravesite of John E. Wiegel ...

A white Illinois teen attaches himself to a regiment of Black Union soldiers in the satirical Civil War novel "How to Dodge a Cannonball." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with author Dennard Dayle about it.