The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

Seen in their entirety for the first time, Emma Mordecai's US Civil War writings paint a seemingly contradictory picture of ...

An American Civil War monument on the Jessamine County Courthouse lawn in Kentucky honors those who fought in the Confederacy. But the statue wears a Union soldier’s hat. David Swartz ...

By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, April 9, the 99th day of 2025. There are 266 days left in the year. Today in ...

Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...

The flag is the only known privately-owned Confederate battle flag captured during Pickett’s Charge from Pickett’s Division ...

It was the Confederacy ... of Civil War Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman last May, to list the flag for bidding. The auction house, one of the nation’s leading purveyors of early American ...

Lee’s surrender at Appomattox—dramatically illustrates the dangers of letting myth substitute for accurate history. For ...

The novel explores an unexpected relationship between a Confederate POW’s wife and a Union officer during the American Civil War. The event, part of MPL’s Open Book / Open Mind series ...

These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops, made up one-tenth of the fighting forces for the Union Army ... Archives and the African American Civil War Museum in Washington, D.C. Once ...