Most folks will tell you the Civil War began April 12, 1861, with the first shots fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. Many historians, however, say the war actually began 164 years ago this ...

At the start of the Civil War in April 1861, 49-year-old Henry Wilson of Natick, Mass., was serving his sixth year in the U.S ...

More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book with “April 1865: The Month That Saved America." His latest book covers the period of time ...

Many of these men, once bound in slavery, were also being documented for the first time, impacting generations to come.

The Civil War (1861 to 1865) was the bloodiest war that the United States has ever fought. Fought between the Union in the North and the Confederacy in the South, the war simply tore the United States ...

The issue of slavery divided the United States long before the election of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. After the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed in 1854, newly established states could use popular ...

Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861, by Robert W. Merry. Simon & Schuster, 528 pages. With Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South ...

Fred Dent Grant, son of President Ulysses S. Grant, left George Armstrong Custer’s 7th Cavalry just before Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians nearly annihilated the regiment at the Battle of the ...

As anger about the presence of ICE in Minneapolis divided the nation, Americans turned to the American Civil War for ...

More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book with “April 1865: The Month That Saved America.” His latest book covers the period of time ...