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

The American Civil War (1861–1865) remains one of the most defining chapters in the nation’s past, forging our modern ...

The Civil War (1861-1865) is America’s bloodiest war ... a piece of pottery—that highlight African-American involvement in the Civil War. They offer students opportunities to research and ...

Courtesy: Library of Congress From 1861 to 1865, the Civil War ravaged ... deaths to Union deaths 9:1 — Ratio of African American Civil War troops who died of disease to those that died on ...

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...

We are highlighting the history of African Americans in Colorado and how they shaped our past. We looked at the city's ...

Minnesota Gov. Alexander Ramsey answered President Abraham Lincoln’s initial call for volunteer Union troops at the outset of the American Civil War with an offer of 1,000 Minnesota ...

The Montgomery Conference yesterday passed an act recognizing war with the United ... for the first time since the civil discord in the United States, an American vessel hoisted the flag of ...

While not a WMC graduate, we also have a large collection related to Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, who was perhaps the most famous American woman doctor of the Civil War era - although she ... Dr. John ...

After the American Civil War of 1861–1865, the growth of cities and the railroads led to greater contact between blacks and whites in the American South. Southerners felt the need to introduce a ...