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

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. Senate. He had been reelected in 1859 after having first been elected in ...

Explore the rich history of Florida's Civil War forts, from the first shots fired at Fort Pickens to the prison where Dr.

America was a house divided over slavery 165 Februarys ago on George Washington’s birthday. On that day, Feb. 22, 1861, in Louisville, two of the city’s most famous newspaper editors climbed on the ...

Reaching for parallels in the Revolution and abolition, Americans are no longer debating conventional public policy. We are debating identity.

Over 160 years ago on Feb. 13, 1861, Col. Bernard J.D. Irwin, an assistant Army surgeon, performed the very first action to ...

When the Union Army seized Charleston, South Carolina, on Feb. 18, 1865, Black troops led the way. The 21st U.S. Colored Infantry Regiment, composed of formerly enslaved men, was the largest ...

Fitzhugh Brundage’s gripping new book, aptly titled A Fate Worse Than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War, represents an essential contribution to this rethinking in its account of what was ...

Tom Hanks is to portray former US President Abraham Lincoln in the big screen adaptation of George Saunders' novel Lincoln in ...

Stacker compiled a list of the biggest cities in Florida 150 years ago using data transcribed from the 1870 U.S. Census.

Tom Hanks is to portray former US President Abraham Lincoln in a new movie.The 69-year-old actor is to appear as the 16th ...