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

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

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

Henry Wirz remains one of the most controversial figures of the Civil War. As commandant of Andersonville Prison, he oversaw a site where over 13,000 Union soldiers died. Convicted of war crimes and ...

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

We’re taught in school that the American Civil War ended when Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865 — 160 years ago Wednesday. In fact ...

An American Civil War monument on the Jessamine County Courthouse ... Remarkably, that divide is not why the statue wears a Confederate buckle, sports a Union hat and still exists in a place ...

SYLVA, N.C. (WLOS) — Four years ago, a plaque with more inclusive language was added to the Confederate soldier statute in ...

A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, will be a top ...

More than a dozen Confederate monuments taken down in Maryland as a result of protests won’t have to be reinstalled, despite President Donald Trump’s executive order.

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...