What are the best Civil War history websites you can find? The American Civil War raged from 1861 to 1865 and permanently altered the nation's course. As one of the first modern conflicts to be ...

Hear about the Union and Confederate forces' race to Washington DC in April 1861. In April 1861, as Union forces retreated north, having lost the first battle of the Civil War, attention turned to the ...

This won't be the first time politics has endangered our professional military. What can we learn from the past?

Gale, part of Cengage Group, is helping faculty and researchers explore and understand the transnational impact of the ...

Veterans of several American wars are buried there, including an 18-year-old who died of wounds suffered at Antietam during ...

After the Great War came great hardship ... are a strong starting point for anyone who wants a unique course in American history, but a deeper dive into American cinema will paint a larger ...

The Williamsburg Battlefield Association wants to unify efforts to save and preserve core elements of Williamsburg’s ...

Despite being little more than the answer to trivia questions today, Vaughn Meader was a pioneer who paved the way for ...

Many men in history are brought high by their ambitions, only to fall from their vices. Louis Wigfall, an attorney, legislator, and later U.S. senator from Texas, had many advantages ...

Their history spans the property ... had been the home place of African-American communities connected through marriage, labor and worship since before the Civil War,” Lindstrom wrote.

For the second consecutive time, the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson has been nominated for the best history ...