The Kings and Generals animated documentary series launches its new chapter on the American Civil War with an in-depth look ...

Modern conceptions of the Civil War grossly underestimate the importance of political union as a motivator to the northern psyche, said Professor Gary W. Gallagher, speaking Monday at the Miller ...

In war, it is the stay and support both of the Government and people, and the astonishment of other nations, who judged of the effect of a civil war in this country by their own experience.

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. ... The South wished to take slavery into the western territories, while the North was committed to keeping them open to white labor alone.

Fifty-two Black veterans of the Civil War are buried at Providence's North Burial Ground. They will be honored June 21 as the community marks Juneteenth.

Bruce Anderson, an African American war hero buried in Amsterdam, fought alongside a Canajoharie white man, Zachariah Neahr, ...

The Civil War remains one of the most important chapters in American history. But the conflict itself was more complex than North vs. South.

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 ...

In this photo provided by The Valley Breeze, Civil War re-enactors fold an American flag near an urn, center, containing the cremated remains of Byron R. Johnson, a Union soldier who was born in ...

In the early years of the Civil War, Knight ran the only pro-Union newspaper published in Europe: The London American. It operated two doors down on Fleet Street from one touting the Confederate ...