Why did North and South go to war with each other in 1861? The standard narrative is that slavery caused the war while more ...

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

Confederate Lieutenant Henry S. Farley pulled the trigger of a large cannon at Fort Sumter at 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861.

It won even though Edda isn’t a Civil War historian, and her book is less about war tactics than it is about Tubman and the African American fight for freedom.

While metal detecting the historic Port Hudson battlefield, we uncovered Civil War relics that may mark the final position of a fallen cavalry officer. The siege of Port Hudson in 1863 was the ...

More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book with “April 1865: The Month That Saved America.” His latest book covers the period ...

From a Civil War Sex Scandal to the Depths of Pearl Harbor: New Documentary Brings Astonishing Wartime Letters to Life In 'Behind the Lines', narrated by Annette Bening, selections from the ...

The Raid Behind the Movie Former National Park Service historian Dr. Smith has written several notable Civil War books, such as Grant Invades Tennessee, and in his new work, we get an outstanding ...

Much of the book involves Johnston’s differences with Confederate President Jefferson Davis – which began literally at the moment Johnston joined the Confederate ranks – as well as with Robert E. Lee ...