But 750,000 Americans would be killed before the Civil War ended in 1865. Four years to the day after Sumter fell, Anderson – by then a retired general – returned to raise the American flag ...

The Civil War lingers through sweeping, cinematic episodes—Gettysburg and Vicksburg, Antietam and Atlanta, secession and emancipation—that accent the greatest convulsion in U.S. history.

NPR's Andrew Limbong talks to Amy Cooter of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies about how realistic an idea of a second civil war is. In the near future, the U.S. president has given ...

The Civil War changed the social, economic, and political landscape for women from every walk of American life—perhaps nowhere more so than in the field of nursing.

America’s Civil War raged outside their windows. A new museum tells their stories. Gettysburg’s newest museum uncovers the stories of the townspeople who lived there: those who fed the ...

The Civil War ended in 1865, but teaching about it, and the role slavery played in causing it, remains one of the most divisive subjects in American education. A new museum that's in the works in ...

Dubbed the Saddle Ridge Find, it is the single largest discovery of Civil War–era gold coins to date, consisting mostly of $20 gold pieces dated between 1847 and 1894. There were 1,427 coins in ...

Along with the last shots of the Civil War fired from Confederate cannons, the waters off Alaska were the site of 32 whaling ships trapped in sea ice and destroyed by it in 1871.

Cashier was not the only woman to hide her identity to join one of the Civil War's belligerents. Historians estimate as few as 400 or as many as 1,000 women hid their gender to fight the war as men.