1619 Project author Nikole Hannah-Jones falsely claimed this week that the Civil War – which began in April 1861 and resulted in an end to slavery in America – began in 1865, the year the war ...

Forge of Freedom: The American Civil War 1861-1865 Updated! Not even a score of days, let alone four, has passed since its release and Forge of Freedom is already updated and improved.

That changed this spring at the National Road Military Show in Zanesville, where he came upon a vendor and a box of Civil War discharge medals. ... Enochs was breveted to general in March 1865.

Holy Week in 1865 presented the last chance for the South to keep the past alive. ... Embers of the Civil War are still burning, some brush fires, others, uncontrollable flames.

Looking back on the Civil War in his 1882 “Specimen Days & Collect,” Walt Whitman reflected that “the real war will never get in the books.” He had tried, in “Drum-Taps” (1865), a ...

The Civil War (1861-1865) is America’s bloodiest war to date. It cost close to 1,100,000 casualties and claimed over 620,000 lives. These lesson plans are based on History Detectives episodes ...