In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

Contemporary health providers stand-in as Civil War surgeons during a re-enactment at the Spangler Barn in Gettysburg, Pa., ...

Description. This lesson, which features Shenandoah University Civil War Institute Director Jonathan Noyalas speaking at the 2024 Civil War Institute conference at Shenandoah University in ...

Honoring a Civil War veteran who was lost to history 07:47. This past August Army Private Sandy Wills was buried with full military honors at a veterans' cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee.

Achilles Harris was a husband, father, and private from a town named Athens in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana. He wrote home to his wife Rebecca from the start of the American Civil War, ...

EW picks the 30 films that define the United States of America, from classics like 'Patton' to newer favorites like 'Hamilton ...

The Civil War is an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers if ...

Leading historians aim to restore and grow respect for enslaved people and their descendants on Juneteenth, commemorating the end of slavery in America.

An African American Union soldier of the American Civil War, seated, in a studio portrait, circa 1863. Getty Images. ... Consider, for example, Private John Handy.

This is how an American civil war begins. Extremists across the US are preparing for what they call the ‘boogaloo’ ... by far – in the number of firearms in private hands.

Achilles Harris was a husband, father, and private from a town named Athens in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana. He wrote home to his wife Rebecca from the start of the American Civil War, when he left ...