Thousands of volunteers work to decode handwritten records from America's past. The National Archives program includes ...

Kings and Generals continues its animated historical documentary series with a new focus on the American Civil War. This series follows their previous coverage of the American Revolution, now ...

In the 1860s, two brothers from Connecticut endeavored to photograph veterans of the American Revolution who could have fought alongside George Washington.

Said was born Mohammed Ali ben Said around 1836 in Kuka (now called Kukawa) to a Kanuri father and a Mandara-Margi mother. He ...

But it is a very real place and the site of a major historical event—a disastrous Civil War battle still remembered as one of the most significant routs in American history. Is there any insight ...

Editor's Note: Shauna Devine, Ph.D., is a historian of Civil War and American medicine. She has a Ph.D. in medical history and currently holds a joint appointment as a research fellow at the ...

After President Donald Trump signed an executive order to change the meaning of the 14th Amendment to end “birthright ...

What is Cold Harbor on Severance? History may hold the answer. What is Cold Harbor on Severance? History may hold the answer.

One Texan newspaper professed itself “thrilled by the death of our oppressor." The American Civil War left a bitter legacy. In the south, burned and devastated, the whites remained very angry ...

The American Civil War Museum actually comprises three sites: The American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar and the White House of the Confederacy can both be found in Richmond, while the ...

This week's letter to the editor asks a question posed in the movie 'Civil War': 'What kind of American are you?' ...