William Harvey Carney, born in slavery, was the hero of the Battle of Battery Wagner, fought in South Carolina in 1863.

For generations, Cleveland residents glancing at a Bavarian-style brick structure while driving on Linden Avenue have ...

Strange artifact at Civil War battlefield is skin from alligator that attacked a soldier during the battle over Vicksburg, Mississippi, National Park says.

President Donald Trump is being hammered on social media after claiming the Civil War “could’ve been solved” without more than 600,000 people being killed in the conflict. Trump made the ...

Man pardoned for Jan. 6 gets life in prison for plotting to incite "civil war," attack FBI agents A Tennessee man pardoned by President Trump in January for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault ...

Read the Sullivan Ballou letter and learn more about the background of it. Ironically, Sullivan Ballou's letter was never mailed.

Stacker presents the 50 best movies set during or around the Civil War, according to their IMDb ratings.

Trump admin. accuses Harvard of 'violent violation' of civil rights law: A timeline of the president's war with the university The Department of Education threatened to revoke all of Harvard’s ...

Confederate Lieutenant Henry S. Farley pulled the trigger of a large cannon at Fort Sumter at 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861. The shell flew upward through the dark sky over Charleston Harbor and burst ...

Civil War is filled with the terrible mayhem of war brought home to the United States. Brilliantly conceived, it shoots a barrage of ideas straight towards your brain and assaults your senses with ...