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 ...

The Lost Peace' by Jay Winik. The most serious attempt to evade America's Civil War was probably doomed to fail, said Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker. But that effort at reco ...

As political tensions simmer across the US, whispers of a second Civil War grow louder. Could California's bold moves ignite ...

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 ...

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

War artifacts are typically weapons and uniforms, but occasionally something so strange shows up, that even historians are at ...

ADRE, Chad — Fatima Omas Abdullah wakes up every morning with aches and pains from sleeping on bare ground for almost two ...

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

The Architecture of Presidential Commemoration” surveys the history of presidential memorialization, a complicated tale.

The Battle of Gettysburg, considered to be one of the most important battles of the American Civil War, came to an end on ...