Dr. Katherine Lennard, Frockt Family Chair and Associate Professor of History, hopes to build on this understanding to enrich the perspectives of students with HIST 316: The U.S. Civil War in Pop ...

Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount in Franklin County, Virginia.

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

The Civil War was an extremely divisive time in American history that split the North and South into the Union and the ...