A nurse prepares to spoon-feed soldiers in the Union hospital at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, USA, circa 1861.Jim Enos—Fotosearch via Getty Images The 1850s and 1860s in America saw the rise of ...

Trace the real causes of the American Civil War in this first part of a detailed historical series, covering the key events and tensions from 1819 to 1861. Uncover how decades of political conflict, ...

When the Confederacy captured the Ironclad uss Indianola during the American Civil War, the Union's Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter thought up a ruse to make sure it wouldn't be salvaged and used ...

The best single description of civil war I have ever encountered is a scene from Ernest Hemingway’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls.”Set during the Spanish Civil War, a Spanish woman loyal to the Republic ...

A new book by scholar Deborah Willis features more than 70 photos, as well as letters, journal entries and posters Isis Davis-Marks - Correspondent Sergeant Major William L. Henderson and hospital ...

Colorized photographs bring a 21st-century approach to the 19th-century technology that changed how Americans understood war. Penelope M. Carrington/The American Civil War Museum At the terminus of ...

The American Civil War was arguably one of the most devastating conflicts in the history of the United States. Fought over slavery, it divided families and communities and, of course, the nation. It ...

The Civil War was the deadliest conflict ever fought on American soil with approximately 620,000 fatalities, according to History.com. Recent analysis could even suggest these numbers are higher than ...

So, I thank him for writing these books, and I greatly encourage you to buy the new one and get your mind right about the dangers we face. The current ICE Insurrection of the revolutionary Left should ...

An African American Union soldier of the American Civil War, seated, in a studio portrait, circa 1863. Over a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson established Veterans Day to honor “the heroism of ...