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 ...

WATCH the video above to celebrate Black Civil War veterans who fought for freedom. If you liked this archival find, check out more videos below. In a small glen located in Mechanicsburg ...

The Civil War, fought from 1861 to 1865, was the deadliest conflict in American history. It erupted over deeply entrenched divisions over slavery, states’ rights and the preservation of the Union.

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 ...

Alternate history is fiction that imagines what would be different if some specific event was changed. A new alt-history timeline is attracting attention on Reddit: What would it be like if 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 ...

Also on this special day, Mercer County, the City of Trenton, and Mercer Cemetery will commemorate the 160th Anniversary of the end of the American Civil War with a special program on Wednesday ...

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.

The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S. during the Civil War. These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops, made up ...

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.