Black History Month is an annual observance centered on celebrating the history, heritage, cultural influence and social ...

In the spirit of America’s Black History Month, which is celebrated every February, I am continuing my tradition of writing columns that focus on the unique experiences, trials, and triumphs of Black ...

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

Death and the American Civil War. We’re talking about the costs of the war Maxwell—director of “Gods and Generals” and “Gettysburg”—has made a career of interpreting. “All of the ...

In the 1860s, two brothers, Nelson and Roswell Moore, photographers from Connecticut, got the idea to use the then-nascent technology of photography to preserve images of the last veterans of the ...

4:1 — The ratio of people who attended church weekly to those who voted in the 1860 election 2.5 — Approximate percentage of the American population that died in the Civil War 7 million ...

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought ...

Editor's Note: Shauna Devine, Ph.D., is a historian of Civil War and American medicine ... While the cause of anesthetic death in the 1860s was not understood, we now know that when ...

Things came to a head in 1860 when the northerner ... itself “thrilled by the death of our oppressor." The American Civil War left a bitter legacy. In the south, burned and devastated, the ...

Something like Thucydides’ ‘stasis’ is now infecting every aspect of American life ... It seems the country is back to 1860 on the eve of the Civil War, rather than in 2018, during the ...