However, these staggering numbers still offer profound insight into the immense tragedy experienced by the American people throughout the Civil War.

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

Timeline of America's first 44 Presidents, from George Washington and the Founding Fathers to the trauma of Civil War and ...

June 13: Congress sends the Fourteenth Amendment to the states. It writes the Republican vision of how post-Civil War American society should be structured into the U.S. Constitution, out of the ...

After the American Civil War, many southern states retained racist rules and systems. The 1896 Supreme Court ruling allowing segregation was not successfully challenged until 1954. The fight for ...