Civil War general and Seneca leader Ely Samuel Parker posthumously admitted to New York State Bar

Ely Samuel Parker, a Seneca leader and Civil War officer, has been posthumously admitted to the New York State Bar. The ...

‘The Civil War’? ‘Baseball’? Ranking the 10 best Ken Burns documentary series

Choosing your favorite Ken Burns series has as much to do with your historical interests as the quality of any individual ...

Ken Burns' 'American Revolution' will make you think differently about U.S. history

Burns' six-part documentary uses voiceover, reenactors and drone footage to tell the story of America's founding. And it ...

‘The American Revolution’ Tells The Story Of ‘One Of The Most Important Events In World History,’ Says Filmmaker Ken Burns

Told over six installments, "The American Revolution" is an expansive look at the virtues and contradictions of the war and ...

Slavery’s brutal reality shocked Northerners before the Civil War − and is being whitewashed today by the White House

Abolitionists used hard facts to counter pro-slavery propaganda, forcing indifferent Americans to face ugly realities.
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How the American Civil War Finally Ended

As the final months of the American Civil War unfolded, we follow how a long-fractured nation moved from brutal fighting ...
C-SPAN

Lesson Plan: 1864 Civil War Attack on Washington, D.C.

Author Robert Watson provided a short overview about the Civil War during the summer of 1864 and the near invasion of Washington, D.C., by Confederate forces. The National Civil War Museum in ...

African American Civil War soldier honored with trail head in Oak Ridge

Elijah Wood was an enslaved soldier who fought for the Union in the Civil War and served in the first United States Colored ...

The toxic culture behind the right’s civil war

A Heritage insider alleging "openly misogynistic and racist” conduct shines a light on the right’s inner workings.

Why it took Seneca leader and Civil War general Ely S. Parker 176 years to be admitted to the NY bar

Ely S. Parker, a Tonawanda Seneca from western New York, never took no for an answer. At the start of the Civil War, Parker’s offer to enlist was rejected outright by another New Yorker, Secretary of ...
CNN

Seven Civil War stories your teacher never told you

Perhaps your history teachers failed to alert you to these Civil War facts: Jefferson Davis nearly got mugged by an angry female mob; Abraham Lincoln loved the Confederate anthem "Dixie," and Paul ...