Elizabeth Van Lew, a Southern belle turned Union spymaster, exemplifies true heroism during the Civil War, challenging the diluted modern concept of a hero.

The largest pre-Civil War mansion in all of the American South burned to the ground as a devastating fire ripped through the historic wooden structure built nearly 200 years ago.

of Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 novel charts irascible Southern belle Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh) as she struggles through the Civil War, witnesses the fall of the South and its gradual ...

You’ve probably heard this one: Before the Civil War, Americans felt a stronger allegiance ... When George Henry Thomas was a teenager in southern Virginia, he and his family were forced to ...

The Alex Garland film is sparking discussion about its release during a contentious election year: "The idea of civil war actually keeps ... Texas protecting our Southern border will be the ...

And though the fighting was concentrated in areas around the border between Southern slave states and free Northern states, Civil War battles spread across a total of 23 states and territories ...

William T. Sherman's ruthless Southern campaign toward the end of the Civil War. The remains are expected to find a safer home at the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum in ...

shows a document signed by President Lincoln in April 1861 ordering the blockade of southern United States ports after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter started the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln ...