The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places ... and over 600,000 men—2 percent of the population—died in it. Follow this timeline to chart the key historical figures and events.

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

The military records show that Melvin Bean, Samuel Blalock, John Burns, Albert D.J. Cashier, Lyons Wakeman and Frank Thompson fought on American battlefields during the Civil War. Research shows ...

Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second ...

How the Trump administration deported nearly 300 Venezuelans under the Alien Enemies Act, despite a court order blocking the ...

The end of the American Civil War is commonly referenced as a rehearsal for the eventual trench warfare that took place in World War One. At the conclusion of the Civil War, the Army had increased ...

The film is a comprehensive and definitive history of the American Civil War, and the recipient of 40 major film and television awards, including two Emmys and two Grammys. Heralded as an ...

In 2019, Trump repeated a claim that if he was removed from office due to impeachment, it could cause a Civil War-like fracture. Last year, he touted that he believed the American Civil War could ...

The American Civil War Museum actually comprises three sites: The American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar and the White House of the Confederacy can both be found in Richmond, while the ...

It had been listed in a record of 7,200 silent films classified as "lost" Sonja Anderson During the Civil War, Confederates ... were identified at the seventh American president's former property ...