Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

So successful was the Lost Cause propaganda campaign that most Americans forgot the true meaning of the Civil War.

Richard Kreitner’s deeply researched book about the Civil War era illuminates the lives of six Jewish Americans and their ...

The Coosaw Sea Island Cotton Heritage Preserve is one of the few sites in the region that contains visible markers of sea ...

These structures make up the remains of a sea island cotton field, worked and created by enslaved labor from the late 1700s until the Civil War ... beyond two benches. Before any other ...

Even in its earliest days, discord was part and parcel of American life. During the American Revolution, families were often divided between Patriots — pushing for American independence from Great ...

Editor: On April 19, we marked the 250th anniversary of the beginning of our Revolution and the founding of our republic at ...

Kingsley Plantation tells one of Florida’s most distinctive slavery stories. In the early 1800s, Zephaniah Kingsley ran this ...

We are starting a new Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the history of the American Civil War. In ...

Denton’s “Free Colored School” organized with a school board in Quakertown in 1866, one year after the Civil War ended.