“To speak as the slave would, to say that we are as happy for the Civil War as most Americans are for the Revolutionary War, is to rupture the narrative.” ...

This story appears in the May 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too slow to record movement sharply. Celebrated photographers such as ...

How the landscape across the Potomac River from Edwards Ferry, Maryland, would have looked to a Civil War "aeronaut ... the June/July issue of Air & Space magazine ...

Run by historian Kevin Levin, this site focuses on the intersection of slavery, race relations and the Civil War. It presents a range of articles on Black Confederates with information about both ...

After the Civil War, 18 veterans of the United States Colored ... A Note to our Readers Smithsonian magazine participates in affiliate link advertising programs. If you purchase an item through ...

Archival images of 16,000 photographs, taken from a total of 1 million pictures of the Civil War, along with period paintings, lithographs, and headlines, were combined with moving newsreel ...

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