Four years of conflict between North and South reshaped the United States forever. In just one minute, this video highlights the causes, the major battles, and the outcome of the American Civil War — ...

JAMESTOWN — Local historian James Lutzweiler will present this month’s First Thursday History Program at the Jamestown Public Library at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. Lutzweiler will discuss two seemingly ...

This visual journey maps every major front, campaign, and turning point of the Civil War using detailed Google Earth ...

Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861, by Robert W. Merry. Simon & Schuster, 528 pages. With Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South ...

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous Confederate States of America, and so far were able to fight the Union Army.

The anatomy of the myth / Alan T. Nolan -- Jubal A. Early, the lost cause, and Civil War history: a persistent legacy / Gary W. Gallagher -- "Is our love for Wade Hampton foolishness?": South Carolina ...

Essays on the Effects of the Civil War on the South in the Post Bellum Era. Some of the papers will prove primarily of interest to academic scholars, dealing with questions of influences on his ...

The African American Civil War Museum in D.C. marked Juneteenth Thursday with a celebration to honor the estimated 6,000 Black soldiers who went to Galveston, Texas, 160 years ago to tell the last ...