Kings and Generals' animated historical documentary series on early modern history and the United States continues with a new chapter: the American Civil War. This episode begins with the ...

The anniversary of the Battle of Brandy Station is June 9. On that day in 1863, during the Civil War, battle ensued for more just over half a day. Today, the American Battlefield Trust has ...

Historian Garry Adelman rates nine Civil War battle scenes in movies such as "Glory" (1989), "Dances with Wolves" (1990), and "Emancipation" (2022). Business Insider Subscribe Newsletters ...

The American Civil War was by far the deadliest conflict in U.S. history. From the start of the war in April 1861, with the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, until General Robert E. Lee’s ...

The US Civil War, fought from 1861 to 1865, was a defining moment in this nation’s history settling the question of slavery once and for all. It was by far the bloodiest conflict that the United ...

A big small town. Gettysburg, about 80 miles north of Washington, D.C., is “one of the most famous small towns in the world,” says Dalton.The brutal fighting in and around the hills outside of ...

The Mexican-American War: Photos from the 1800s show a young nation's conflict Prominent American Civil War Generals Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, and Stonewall Jackson were among those who ...

According to Timothy B. Smith, a history lecturer at the University of Tennessee at Martin, the Battle of Shiloh was the first big battle in the American Civil War. “20,000 dead in two days of ...

Alex Garland's dystopian thriller Civil War depicts a current-day, less-than-united states of America in which journalists are scrambling to get to the White House before rebel factions do.