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 ...

Most people associate secession with the Civil War but idea of disuniting the United States has crept into national ...

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

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 ...

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

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

After initially prosecuting those who tried to overthrow an election, Presidents Grant and Hayes backed down—with ...

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 ...