“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scuffles seem to break out in parliaments and legislatures around the world. The last few years saw a brawl in Taiwan, a face-punch in Ukraine and a mass fight in South Africa. The floor of the U ...

But what separates the Battle of Black Jack from others is it was the first armed skirmish between pro- and anti-slavery forces and lit the fuse on what would become the Civil War. Much has been ...

Do you want us to be in civil war?" because that's what's going to happen. We're not going to keep putting up with this. And Eric, I like that that you suggested that we need to get angry.

Syria’s civil war obliterated their neighborhoods ... This story appears in the March 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. A wedding at Riga Palace in Aleppo is the first celebration ...

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 ...