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

Today, and every April 9 to come, should be a national holiday. A holiday to commemorate, celebrate, and sanctify the story ...

A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, will be a top ...

Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was short on a crucial supply ... Born in Maryland to free Black American parents, Benson had emigrated with his family to the West African colony at ...

"Incidents of the war: A harvest of death ... soldiers 3:1 — Ratio of Confederate deaths to Union deaths 9:1 — Ratio of African American Civil War troops who died of disease to those that ...

a former Union officer with whom he has a truly bloody history. There's a deep connection between the American Western and ...

For this reason, the government turned away African American voluteers ... But the purpose of the Civil War had now changed. The North was not only fighting to preserve the Union, it was fighting ...

Freeman, Yale professor of history and American studies ... and editor who worked in Washington in the lead up to the Civil War. During his four decades in the nation’s capital, he crossed ...

Now, 160 years later, 70 Black Union military members who fought ... collaborated with the National Archives and the African American Civil War Museum in Washington, D.C. Once the research was ...

That Arthur T. Carter is spearheading an effort to build this Civil War monument sounds about right. Especially when folks ...

In the podcast, a professor at Asbury University explores the complicated history of a Confederate Civil War monument wearing a Union hat.