PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- The Perryville boys basketball team withstood a late comeback from rival Chester to win the annual "Border War" on Saturday 45-41 at the Heartland Hoopfest at the Perry Park ...

The Civil War is an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers if ...

Pictures of Staff Sgt. Bradley J. Skelton of Gordonville are included in the Remembering Our Fallen memorial at the Perry Park Center in Perryville, Mo. Skelton was killed by an improvised ...

A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the moral issue of slavery. In fact, it was the economics of slavery and political control of that system that was central to the conflict.

Nikki Haley on Thursday sought to clarify her comments about the Civil War one day after a voter in New Hampshire called her out for not mentioning slavery as a cause of the war.

A look at the people and events that shaped the Civil War and Reconstruction. Discover the people and events that document the American story — Saturdays on C-SPAN2. Come along with American ...