More than 100,000 people disappeared during the 13-year civil war. To bring closure to some of their families, the new ...

Our appreciation and respect for Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address is enhanced by an awareness of the fascinating ...

This narrative explores the Battle of Gettysburg as one of history’s defining turning points, tracing the conflict from the strategic movements that preceded it to the brutal, chaotic fighting across ...

Abolitionists used hard facts to counter pro-slavery propaganda, forcing indifferent Americans to face ugly realities.

Perhaps your history teachers failed to alert you to these Civil War facts: Jefferson Davis nearly got mugged by an angry female mob; Abraham Lincoln loved the Confederate anthem "Dixie," and Paul ...

In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its ...

Explore the truths behind Civil War and slavery myths that persist in America and understand the real history behind them.

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the armed conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s federal Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) and forces of the previously dominant ...

A new museum in the works will tell the story of the Civil War from the home front in North Carolina. It’s geared toward students, and recently social studies teachers in eastern North Carolina met ...

Vicksburg, Mississippi (CNN) – Near closing time on a recent Fourth of July, Grace Bailey noticed a man approaching along the brick pathway, headed toward the front door of McRaven House in Vicksburg, ...