William Harvey Carney actions amid some of the most intense combat of the Civil War would earn him the respect of his fellow ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

Today’s episode will focus on one of the biggest – and most important – turning points in world history; the Battle of ...

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

At the beginning of my book ... What was Congress like in the decades leading up to the Civil War? The paintings from the time show senators in black frocks debating, their fingers thrust into ...

Civil War Army nurse Caroline Burghardt and her gravesite ... (U.S. Navy) The USS Constitution, first launched in 1797, is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat and the only current U.S ...