This December, join Dr. Damian Shiels for a comprehensive three-week online course titled "Researching the American Civil War." Explore the remarkable stories of Irish bravery, sacrifice, and ...
On Friday, January 30 at 6 p.m., author Tyler Alexander will share the epic story of Dan Mason, a white man who served in the ...
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How the American Civil War finally ended

As the final months of the American Civil War unfolded, we follow how a long-fractured nation moved from brutal fighting ...
Cecily Zander, an assistant professor of history at the University of Wyoming, has earned the 2025 Center for Civil War Research’s Wiley-Silver Prize for the best first book in Civil War history. This ...
Dan Gediman’s new podcast, The Copperhead Conspiracy, looks at how thousands of Northerners conspired with the Confederacy to ...
The bloodiest day in American history occurred 150 years ago, on Sept. 17, 1862, at the Battle of Antietam (Union name) or Sharpsburg (Confederate name). More Americans died on this single day than ...
PITTSBURGH-As the Civil War was raging, thousands of American readers would wait to get news on the conflict every seven days from Harper’s Weekly, then the most widely-read periodical in the United ...
A new monument honoring 70 Black men from Franklin County who served in the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War was ...
BENNINGTON, VT. — While U.S. troops remain in Afghanistan after 15 years, and the global reach of World War II's six years was unprecedented in scope, the American Civil War remains the nation's ...
On the occasion of the ACLU’s centennial, this essay collection explores many critical moments in the organization’s history. In 1917, war fever was sweeping the country. So was anti-dissent hysteria.
Natural scenery and cultural history abound at national parks in Arkansas. From colonial outposts and Civil War battlefi ...
It is a warm day in Paris in the mid-1930s. In a crowded sidewalk cafe, a group of foreign correspondents gathered. In their ranks is William L. Shirer, former newspaper reporter and recently named by ...