Archaeologists have identified two potential mass graves of Black Union soldiers who were targeted by Confederate guerrillas ...

This year marks the 160th anniversary of the end of fighting between the Union and Confederate military. A display of the ...

In the mid-1800s, America was a profoundly religious ... family and friends one hoped to reunite with in heaven. The American Civil War upended these Christian notions of the proper way to die.

In his Second Inaugural Address, Lincoln endowed the Civil War with sacred meaning, creating an American Scripture and ... is not fit to live." Born in 1800, Nat belonged to the Turners, white ...

Civil War surgeons learned fast ... that Franklin Pierce was involved in treasonous activities against the American government—an accusation that infuriated the former president.

Using the First Civil War analogy, American unity was achieved only after the South was vanquished and slavery abolished. How are those of us who oppose left-wing nihilism – there is no other ...

In the mid-1800s, there were around four million slaves ... itself “thrilled by the death of our oppressor." The American Civil War left a bitter legacy. In the south, burned and devastated ...