A look at the people and events that shaped the Civil War and Reconstruction. Discover the people and events that document the American story — Saturdays on C-SPAN2. Come along with American ...

editor of Civil War History, a leading academic journal that recently devoted a special issue to wartime trauma. “It’s taken a long time to recognize all the soldiers who came home broken by ...

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to the outbreak of the bloodiest conflict in the history of North America? A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the ...

“Every normal attitude of life was imitated by these dead men,” according to the patriotic serial The Times History of the ... unveiled in the American Civil War, nothing like this thunderous ...

At the time of the Civil ... the war totaled approximately 80,000 cases for the Union and 54,000 for the Confederates. It was apparently safe, with few deaths. The Medical and Surgical History ...

How brilliant a military leader are you? One of the most important battles of the U.S. Civil War -- and indeed of all U.S. history -- was the battle of Gettysburg. During the three days of July 1 ...