In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

Continue the deep dive into the American Civil War with Part 2, focusing on the crucial battles of 1861 that set the tone for years of bloody conflict. From Fort Sumter to Ball's Bluff, these early ...

Donald Trump was mocked online for seemingly not knowing when the civil war ended, causing users to claim their own president ...

1861: The Lost Peace. By Jay Winik. Grand Central Publishing. 304 pages. $35. More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book with ...

In “1861: The Lost Peace,” Winik covers the lead-up to the first shots being fired at Fort Sumter. The political intrigue leading up to 1861 rivals the battlefield action readers come to ...

The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

Edda L. Fields-Black is the winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History, and the author of “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the ...

Emergency Medical Services (EMS) have evolved dramatically over time, transforming from rudimentary systems of transport to ...

School – and the federal government's role in it – has been a topic of debate in the U.S. since the very first Department of Education was created.

Thousands of veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic descended on Marietta in May of 1903 to reflect on their service and ...

Once upon a time, the Prince of Wales came to you might say a magical place called The Mansion House hotel in Mount Carbon, ...