He has been the first of our commentators to discern that the heroism displayed in the war could only come from that principle which made our social life decent and orderly, built the school ...

At the conclusion of the Civil War, the Army had increased dramatically in size and, for the most part, had overcome many of its growing pains, finally conquering many of its command-and-control ...

Thousands of people participate in Civil War reenactments each year in the United States. They’re sharing a tradition of reenactment that stretches back to the years of the war itself. To herald ...

Click here to see the states with the most snipers during the Civil War The role sharpshooters played in the Civil War was highly-specialized, and so too was their equipment.

I spoke with Kreitner about this fraught history of Jews and slavery, and why all American Jews — not just those who arrived before the Civil War — should take its lessons to heart.

During the transatlantic slave trade, Charleston, South Carolina was one of the largest slave ports in the United States. But at the height of the Civil War, Charleston’s waterfront was the ...

Douglas Baum was back in the River City on Friday with his family’s camels to tell the story of “Old Douglas,” the only camel to die in action during the Civil War. July 4 marked the final day of the ...

It wasn’t just bullets and slashing swords that Isaac C. Hart had to fear during the Civil War. As a White Army officer leading Black troops, Hart faced the possibility of being treated harshly ...

A plurality of Americans who responded to the Economist/YouGov survey said the country is more politically unstable now than during the Great Depression or the Civil War, the poll found.

An audience member asked Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley: “What was the cause of the United States Civil War?” at a town hall in Berlin Wednesday evening.

This White officer led Black troops during the Civil War. 110 years after his death, he was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery ...