Dr. Allen C. Guelzo gives perspective on what the American Civil War was really about. Dr. Allen C. Guelzo the Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar at Princeton University talks about how ...

Prime Video has announced the release date for The Gray House, the upcoming historical drama about the brave women who served as Union spies during the American Civil War. The first official photos ...

I don’t believe the United States is on the verge of civil war. I don’t believe it even though a substantial portion of Americans support political violence and despite chilling examples ranging from ...

The American Civil War was arguably one of the most devastating conflicts in the history of the United States. Fought over slavery, it divided families and communities and, of course, the nation. It ...

Colorized photographs bring a 21st-century approach to the 19th-century technology that changed how Americans understood war. Penelope M. Carrington/The American Civil War Museum At the terminus of ...

The Alex Garland film is sparking discussion about its release during a contentious election year: "The idea of civil war actually keeps me up at night." By James Hibberd Writer-at-Large Civil War ...

Out of guilt or amnesia, we tend to treat wars, in retrospect, as natural disasters: terrible but somehow inevitable, beyond anyone’s control. Shaking your fist at the fools who started the First ...

The Civil War was the deadliest conflict ever fought on American soil with approximately 620,000 fatalities, according to History.com. Recent analysis could even suggest these numbers are higher than ...

Over a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson established Veterans Day to honor “the heroism of those who died in the country’s service” after the First World War. Wilson proclaimed that the day, ...

The sculpture will be mounted on an elevated hill in Franklin County, Virginia. The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S.