Author Darin Wipperman provides a tantalizing glimpse into the world of Berdan’s sharpshooters during the American Civil War.

There’s something undeniably magical about standing on weathered wooden planks that have witnessed the passage of history, and Pennsylvania’s Sachs Covered Bridge delivers that time-traveling ...

This is the second in a series of articles commemorating the 160th anniversary of the end of the Civil War. These articles were prepared by recent Loudoun County ...

Actor Alec Baldwin took to Instagram on Tuesday night to inform his followers that he believes America is in a 'pre-Civil War' environment after watching a miniseries on the Civil War.

The Civil War was the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history with a death toll of 750,000, according to recent studies — more than twice the number of American troops killed in World War II and two ...

Here are the best Civil War movies and all the various ways you can watch them online and on physical media.

Mar. 24—Stephen Talbot knew that taking on a project about the Vietnam War was going to be an incredible task. There were going to be hours of research, as well as dozens of interviews planned ...

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Why We Need a New Civil War Documentary The success and brilliance of the new PBS series on Reconstruction is a reminder of the missed opportunity facing the nation ...

The Civil War which ended in 1865, demolished slavery and emancipated four million human beings. What happened next in the South remains largely unknown to most Americans. In a recent poll of high ...