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

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 ...

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with key battles fought in places like Pennsylvania, Virginia, and South Carolina ...

"Lincoln’s Peace" examines the difficulty in turning wartime victory into solving the political and social problems that led ...

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 ...