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 ...

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

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, ...

This week marks the anniversary of the greatest battle in the United States’ Civil War. That battle, at Gettysburg, was ...

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.

More than a century after his passing, Private John Haap, a Civil War Army veteran, was honored with a tombstone dedication ...

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.

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 ...