As the final months of the American Civil War unfolded, we follow how a long-fractured nation moved from brutal fighting ...

You want to learn more about the Civil War, right? Of course you do. It is a significant part of U.S. history that continues to impact Americans today. From 1861 to 1865, bloody battles were waged ...

William Faulkner famously wrote, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." That could describe some of the recent historical discourse on the presidential campaign trail. First came Republican ...

Imagine the Civil War fought with M16 rifles instead of muskets. This alternate history explores how modern firepower could ...

Perhaps your history teachers failed to alert you to these Civil War facts: Jefferson Davis nearly got mugged by an angry female mob; Abraham Lincoln loved the Confederate anthem "Dixie," and Paul ...

Fought from 1861 to 1865 as the nation became diametrically opposed on the issue of the expansion and preservation of slavery, or the abolition of it, the American Civil War remains one of the most ...

Civil War reenactor and historian Mike Inman demonstrates how to use a Civil War-era pill roller with Playdough in Karissa Prewitt's fourth-grade class at Peterson Elementary School in Kalispell on ...

On Oct. 28, 1886, Charles Pomeroy Stone became severely ill after serving as the grand marshal of the dedication parade for the Statue of Liberty. Stone never regained his health, and three months ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the year Abraham Lincoln was sworn into office. A corrected version follows. WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump at a ...

BLOOMDALE Elmwood High School’s Heidi Meyer and her 10th grade Advanced Placement United States History classroom visited ...