Explore the American Civil War's history, causes like slavery and states' rights, key events including Gettysburg and ...

While the redesignations will return the facilities to their original names, they come with a twist, as the bases will ...

More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book with “April 1865: The Month ... its disintegration. In “1861: The Lost Peace ...

In other words, strategy shapes the course and consequences of the battles and campaigns ... In the volume under review, noted historian of the American Civil War (1861-1865), Earl J. Hess, turns the ...

Francis Richard Lubbock was born in Beaufort, South Carolina, in 1815 to Dr. Henry and Ann Lubbock. While still an infant, ...

All of the essays are well written, deeply researched, and throw considerable light on hitherto obscure corners of the war. One, “Capitals and Communities in War and Revolution,” examines the wartime ...

The holiday’s origins can be traced to the American Civil War, which killed more than 600,000 service members — both Union and Confederate — between 1861 and 1865. The first national ...

The American Civil War (1861–1865) was a four-year conflict fought between the United ... As early as 1915, Hollywood was drawing on some of the bloodiest battles of the conflict for cinematic ...

Martin Callahan The saga of the roving historical marker is longer and more complicated than that of the May 9, 1861, encounter ... streets are named for Civil War battles such as Boonsboro ...

After Confederate forces opened fire on the federal garrison at Fort Sumter in South Carolina, on April 12, 1861 ... would fight in the Civil War. Though no battles took place in the state ...

Members of the People’s Organization For Progress will journey to Mercer County to honor Black Civil War Soldiers today, ...