At one point, Joel walks into a clothing store in an eerily calm small town and says, “Are you guys aware that there’s a pretty big civil war going on all across America?” This is what the N ...

Whether visitors arrive via road, rail or trail, Point of Rocks’s hold on history is ... land that offered access to the west. By the Civil War, its strategic location attracted Confederate ...

Photography was still relatively new in 1861 as the Civil War began, but when America’s ... McNair – on Greenleaf Point, near the junction of the Anacostia River and the Washington Channel ...

In 1860, Fort Sumter, the federal sea fortress guarding Charleston, became a flash point in the tensions between ... the first shots fired in the Civil War. Larson calls it "the single most ...