The American Civil War was the first major conflict that was photographed extensively, bringing shocking and often horrific images to the front pages and into people's living rooms. Photography ...

In the last months of his life, serious doubts were raised about the alleged soldier's age and the claim that he fought in ...

He had experience in Congress as both a representative and senator, and had been secretary of war under President Franklin ...

Read More: What America Owes Black Veterans of World War II These warriors came to embody Black Civil War service, if not African American patriotism. As the war raged, Sergeant Major Lewis Douglass ...

It “defined us as what we are, and it opened us up to what we became.” The American Civil War set the United States on the path to becoming a global force, but another clash, long forgotten ...

Researching her family history, Cheryl Wills found she was related to a former slave who served in the Civil War with the ...

An American Insurgency is an asymmetric style strategy board game which seeks to reveal what a sequel to the American Civil ...

A look at the people and events that shaped the Civil War and Reconstruction. Discover the people and events that document the American story — Saturdays on C-SPAN2. Come along with American ...

Editor's Note: Shauna Devine, Ph.D., is a historian of Civil War and American medicine. She has a Ph.D. in medical history and currently holds a joint appointment as a research fellow at the ...

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 ...

PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) — For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans ...

For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage facilities at a funeral home and cemetery in Seattle. The simple copper and ...