What did the Civil War do to railroading? The changes were rapid, profound, lasting, and formed the real basis of truly ...

Spotlight on a letter from a young Union soldier interested ... in the Confederate Army. After watching excerpts from the episodes Chandler Tintype and Civil War Letters, each of which looks ...

Archaeologists have identified two potential mass graves of Black Union soldiers who were targeted by Confederate guerrillas ...

The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many southerners felt that there was no longer a place for them in the Union ... Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate ...

Archaeologists have possibly identified two mass graves of Black Union soldiers in Kentucky. The discovery will help them ...

This year marks the 160th anniversary of the end of fighting between the Union and Confederate military. A display of the ...

Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was short on a crucial supply, the absence of which threatened to sap the fighting strength of the Northern army: coffee. This critical source of energy ...

The South’s Army of Northern ... largely be deferred. The Union was saved, but the intersections of race and legacy of slavery, which was at the core of the Civil War, continues to confront ...