More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book with “April 1865 ...

When the Civil War began in 1861, Starr King helped California raise $1.2 million, more than any state in the union, for the U.S. Sanitary Commission, a precursor to the American Red Cross ...

A study has found that land owned by the city of Richmond, Virginia, possibly contains more than 700 unmarked graves. Some of ...

Memorial Day is a U.S. holiday that’s supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen service members, but it’s come to ...

Uniforms are used for identification as well as to provide a sense of unity during any conflict, and the American Civil War (1861-1865) was no exception. At their most basic level, Civil War ...

But when, specifically, was America great? Not too long ago ... and 5% said the same for the Civil War (1861-1865). Just 3% said the same for the Great Depression (1929-1939), making it the ...

With Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861, author and former editor of The American Conservative Robert W. Merry picks up where he left off ...

The American Civil War is a pivotal and ugly moment in American ... his home state officially voted to leave the union in January 1861, he decided to stick by his state, rather than his country.

This article originally appeared in the May 2025 issue of Town&Gown magazine. I recently had the honor of visiting Jimmy ...

In the 19th century, the shoreline from Williamsburg to Red Hook was full of ships and warehouses, and shipping was Brooklyn's biggest industry.

Behind the statue is a vintage map ... the Civil War, it was embroiled in a diplomatic crisis when Union ships seized two Confederate envoys sailing to London on an English ship in 1861.

Instead, it was part of a prolonged effort during and after the Revolutionary War to convince Canadians ... back out of the footnotes. A map of British America showing the original boundaries ...