George H. Cramer, German immigrant and Civil War major, helped shape Cape Girardeau as mayor, postmaster and civic leader, leaving a legacy honored by veterans and his prominent family.

CAIRO (AP) — Over two years have passed since Sudan plunged into a civil war that has caused what aid organizations have described as one of the world’s worst displacement and hunger crises.

The Civil War Museum of Kenosha is sponsoring a campaign tour of the sites and battlefields connected with the Union Army’s 1863 campaign to capture the city of Vicksburg, Miss.

Vicksburg National Military Park in Mississippi is receiving over $5 million toward restoring a key Civil War monument and removing a building that previously was used as a visitors’ center.

Modern Civil War historiography obscured his story. Then, while reading “a recent book on the Vicksburg campaign,” historian and author Albert A. Nofi checked the reference for “one of Fred’s ...

The Italian-born filmmaker Roberto Minervini has, until now, focused on documentaries, but his first fiction film bears hallmarks of keen observation and suggestiveness.

In this episode, we visit the historic Port Gibson Civil War battlefield for the very first time with our Minelab Equinox 800 detectors. Buried beneath the Mississippi soil for over 160 years ...

President Donald Trump suggested that he could have handled the Civil War better than then-President Abraham Lincoln in a meeting with reporters at The White House on Wednesday.

Democrats were more likely to view a civil war in the near future as possible, according to the poll.

Archaeologists recently announced the discovery of skeletons at Colonial Williamsburg – but the skeletons weren’t from the Revolutionary War.