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 ...

As the final months of the American Civil War unfolded, we follow how a long-fractured nation moved from brutal fighting ...

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 ...

This American civil war has been a long time coming. We have returned to it because we never resolved the nation’s original sins.

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 ...

In Season 4 of American Pickers, Mike and Frank find some impressive Confederate-era cash and end up spending $1,000 on the ...

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 ...

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.

The smell of campfires and gunpowder were in the air at Burton Century Village Museum and Historical Education Center’s Civil War re-enactment. The encampment took place on May 24 at 14653 E. Park St.

An African American Union soldier of the American Civil War, seated, in a studio portrait, circa 1863. Over a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson established Veterans Day to honor “the heroism of ...

Florida was the third state to secede from the Union during the Civil War. Around 15,000 Floridians fought in the Civil War, representing the highest percentage of any Confederate state. Florida faced ...