An era-appropriate melody plays as photographs move slowly across the screen and a voice reads heartfelt letters written ...
Documentarian and New Hampshire resident Ken Burns is almost ready to release his new series, a six-part, 12 hour show on 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 ...
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 ...
It was a bloody civil war that divided families and communities ... The series will be distributed internationally by PBS International. The American Revolution is a production of Florentine ...
No fewer than 14 African-American soldiers were awarded the Medal ... For all that, New Market Heights is little more than a footnote in Civil War history—a battle, scholars agree, that deserves ...