Today’s episode will focus on one of the biggest – and most important – turning points in world history; the Battle of ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

Charles H. Walker settled in Columbia County after the war, and his descendants are committed to preserving and sharing his ...

Charles H. Walker's family is committed to preserving and sharing his diary, which has entries from September 1861 through ...

Paranoid about losing their majority status and the power it confers, white Americans keep backing Trump’s racist ...

In this new episode of Kings and Generals’ Civil War series, we cover the Battle of Fredericksburg—one of the bloodiest and ...

The GAR Memorial Association and the Civil War museum in the Marketplace at Steamtown are raising funds to purchase a Civil ...

Colonel Joshua Chamberlain – later to be memorialized as the hero of Little Round Top at Gettysburg ... battle and with control of the hill in hand, Lee commented to Longstreet … “It is well ...

Lee thinking at Gettysburg?—and navigated new and difficult ... Knowles says her work has been well received by Civil War scholars. But that’s partly because military historians are more ...

In October 1864, according to local lore, three women walked to the community cemetery in the village of Boalsburg, Centre ...

Noteworthy items include a Confederate flag used at the First Battle ... such as Civil War bullets, presidential campaign memorabilia and coins from ancient Rome. The Gettysburg Museum of History ...

The BBC's Katty Kay speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Rick Atkinson as America marks 250 years since ...