Opinion: What the clash of ideologies in the Civil War taught us about America’s founding

This continent once hosted a new nation, conceived in slavery — but that was the Confederacy, not the United States of ...

America 250: The Impact of the Battle of Wilson’s Creek

The Battle of Wilson’s Creek was very early in the Civil War, but it was very crucial to the Show-Me State. “Both sides ...
WHYY

The Declaration Through Union and Confederate Eyes

As the nation fractured, Americans turned to the Declaration of Independence for meaning. Union leaders like Lincoln saw it as a promise that equality could grow over time, while the Confederacy used ...
The Spokesman-Review

End of The Civil War: Confederate surrenders throughout the country... and world

We’re taught in school that the American Civil War ended when Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865 — 160 years ago Wednesday. In fact, reality was ...
UPI

On This Day: Union defeats Confederacy at Gettysburg

July 3 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1608, French explorer Samuel de Champlain founded the Canadian town of Quebec. In 1775, George Washington took command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, ...

Civil War divides city, but Union control holds: Revisiting St. Louis history

In May 1863, soldiers rounded up McLure and two dozen other disloyal civilians and dispatched them downriver to the ...
Grand Forks Herald

Minnesota won a Confederate battle flag from Virginia at Gettysburg. Here's why it won't give it back.

The Civil War ended in 1865, but for Minnesota and the one-time rebel state of Virginia, the battle continues over a prized battle flag. Union Soldier Marshall Sherman of Minnesota stands in front of ...
PBS

The Declaration Through Union and Confederate Eyes

During the Civil War, Americans fought over what the Declaration truly meant. As the nation fractured, Americans turned to the Declaration of Independence for meaning. Union leaders like Lincoln saw ...