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In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...
IrishCentral Contributor Joseph Connell explores how Ireland's Civil War ignited with the shelling of Ireland's most prominent court buildings.
War is boring as hell in “The Damned,” an austere western drama set far from the battlefields on the 1862 frontier. It seeks not to tell a story but to capture a set of feelings.
The African American Civil War Museum in D.C. marked Juneteenth with a celebration to honor the estimated 6,000 Black soldiers who went to Galveston, Texas, 160 years ago.
The Italian-born filmmaker Roberto Minervini has, until now, focused on documentaries, but his first fiction film bears hallmarks of keen observation and suggestiveness.
Likely: War ends on current battle lines Other reports indicate the war is set to end along the existing battle lines. In return, Ukraine would regain control of a handful of small areas.
That American Revolution/Civil War link is particularly true in York County, which sits on the Mason-Dixon Line, close to military movements, supply lines and bloody battlefields.
The official synopsis reads: “In the midst of the Civil War, the U.S. Army sends a company of volunteer soldiers to the western territories, with the task of patrolling the uncharted borderlands.
President Donald Trump is being hammered on social media after claiming the Civil War “could’ve been solved” without more than 600,000 people being killed in the conflict.
Adam Gopnik reviews “Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War,” by Michael Vorenberg, and “1861: The Lost Peace,” by Jay Winik.
It’s common to find ancient remains or objects in Greece. But hulking Yedi Kule castle was a prison where Communist sympathizers were tortured and executed during Greece’s 1946–49 Civil War.
Former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (rtd), has described the Nigerian civil war period (July 6, 1967 – January 15, 1970) as the most difficult period of his life. Gowon made this known in ...