In April, more than 200 Civil War and history enthusiasts from across the United States and Canada converged on the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall in Carnegie for our annual Civil War ...

A white Illinois teen attaches himself to a regiment of Black Union soldiers in the satirical Civil War novel "How to Dodge a Cannonball." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with author Dennard Dayle about it.

Vincent Venturini's "Blackened Chimneys" details the life of Arabelle Daniel in Jackson, Mississippi during the Civil War, primarily focusing on the spring and summer of 1863.