The Civil War was a military, cultural, political, and economic milestone in American history. For four years the nation was in a bloody divide that extended from the East Coast to the pioneer West ...

Louis Agassiz stands contentedly in front of his chalkboard drawings, c. 1871. Library of Congress. Agassiz had a message for Americans shattered by the Civil War. He announced it in a series of ...

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in ...

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to the outbreak of the bloodiest conflict in the history of North America? A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the ...

As voters go to the polls in the US tomorrow to elect their 47th president, Americans live in the shadow of Donald Trump’s ...

Just a few days ago, Elon Musk spread a fake election video that purportedly showed a Haitian immigrant claiming to have ...

His uncle, Charles Naden, was a tail-gunner on a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber that was returning from a bombing mission to an ...

Although I’ve always said, why wasn’t that settled, you know? I’m a guy that — it doesn’t make sense we had a civil war.” What in the world was he talking about here? Is he implying ...

He lost his well-paying factory job in the mid ... protests against Israel’s war in Gaza, which Republican and some ...

It’s not every fine artist who is inspired by the “Three Little Pigs.” But it happened to Zachariah O’Hora. An artist who was ...

This section displays objects that were used as flags during the Civil War. National Museum of American History Old Glory flag National Museum of American History United States National 34-Star Flag ...

location and funding for a monument that will be erected on the lawn of the South Carolina State House Sarah Kuta A recent exhibition shows how soldiers sent in votes during the Civil War and ...