Was the Civil War Inevitable? A historian of the conflict traces the path to disunion in the 1850s — and the lessons it holds for our own era of deep division.

From the Civil War to Civil Rights, the Alexandria waterfront witnessed the journey of African Americans in Alexandria that is highlighted in the city’s new African American Heritage Trail.

New research is shedding light on a 40-acre military camp for Black soldiers that fanned out from the southeast corner of ...

It took 16 years to develop from the introduction of the telegraph to the Civil War. Undoubtedly, the fight over slavery caused that conflict, but the newspapers fed it, amplified it, exaggerated it.

July 5 has long been a historic day in Carthage, as residents remember an early battle of the Civil War that happened there ...

How an Auburn man started a pro-North newspaper in London during the Civil War John Adams Knight, whose house sits in Auburn's West Pitch Park, acknowledged that once he backed the North, it was a ...

Actor Alec Baldwin took to Instagram on Tuesday night to inform his followers that he believes America is in a 'pre-Civil War' environment after watching a miniseries on the Civil War.

Bringing Closure to a Civil War Mystery in Centreville Historic marker dedicated to soldiers that were found there.

An editorial written in defense of pro-Confederate women in St. Mary’s County resulted in the shutdown of a Leonardtown newspaper during the Civil War a century and a half ago.

``I have been a Civil War re-enactor for over 20 years -- from Missouri to the East Coast,'' said Williams, who owns both Union and Confederate newspapers.

How a Newspaper Revolution Sparked Protesters and Influencers: Disinformation and the Civil War How the most divided period in the history of U.S. democracy – the mid-1800s – coincided with a ...