Arlington National Cemetery's Section 27 is the final resting place of more than 3,800 formerly enslaved people who escaped to Washington during the Civil War but ... C. Meigs, the U.S. Army ...

The Civil War transformed Washington from a sleepy outpost into a federal city ... Bodies drifted miles downstream; some were fished out along what is now the Maine Avenue wharf in DC. When news of ...

Six weeks into quarantine, I was flailing. My wife was pregnant and in the midst of terrible morning sickness, our 4-year-old son was sick of all the activities I’d devised outside our D.C ...

A scene from the Smithsonian Channel’s new documentary, Lincoln’s Washington ... his shop on the day Fort Sumter was attacked by Confederate forces and the Civil War began and later told ...