Explore the American Civil War's history, causes like slavery and states' rights, key events including Gettysburg and Antietam, and the war's lasting impact on the United States ...

What really led to the American Civil War? This episode investigates the deeper causes behind Southern secession—slavery, economic conflict, states’ rights, and political breakdown. Discover ...

For more than a century in Des Moines’s Glendale Cemetery, the remains of 15 Union Civil War veterans rested in unmarked graves. They remained unmarked until Thursday, when the culmination of ...

Kings and Generals' animated historical documentary series on early modern history and the United States continues with a new chapter: the American Civil War. This episode begins with the ...

Roberto Minervini’s narrative debut “The Damned” revisits the U.S. Civil War in a cinema verite style. Minervini, who has helmed a slew of documentary films, deployed his nonfiction ...

Actor Alec Baldwin took to Instagram on Tuesday night to inform his followers that he believes America is in a 'pre-Civil War' environment after watching a miniseries on the Civil War.

As the deadliest war in United States history, the Civil War is a period many would like to forget. However, it’s impossible to erase the importance of a multi-year conflict that almost ...

An African American Union soldier of the American Civil War, seated, in a studio portrait, circa 1863. Getty Images. By Jonathan Lande / Made by History. November 11, 2024 8:00 AM EST.

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 ...

PAWTUCKET, R.I. — 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.

Dr. Allen C. Guelzo gives perspective on what the American Civil War was really about. Dr. Allen C. Guelzo the Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar at Princeton University talks about ...

From classic epics like 'Gone With the Wind' to recent psychological thrillers like 'The Beguiled', here are the 20 best American Civil War movies of all time, ranked.