The American Civil War was not only fought with rifles and cannons. It was fought with hangings, firing squads, prison ...

Ever wonder how Civil War artillery shells actually detonated? This video breaks down the main fuse types time fuses, ...

Nor, despite our warning against prediction, did we doubt it would end badly for the South. The North had factories and ...

This video is no longer available. The African American Civil War Museum in D.C. marked Juneteenth Thursday with a celebration to honor the estimated 6,000 Black soldiers who went to Galveston, Texas, ...

Both the Union and the Confederacy believed God was on their side, using faith to justify their respective causes. Tyler Rice of Columbus, Ohio is a freelance historian specializing in religion and ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... The late Gore Vidal once recounted how Norman Podhoretz, the neoconservative intellectual and longtime editor of Commentary, was flummoxed ...

Hundreds of thousands of Americans North and South fought in the Civil War, including a Union drummer boy named Albert Woolson. He couldn’t have known it in 1864 when he enlisted at age 14, but at the ...

People exiting Washington, D.C.’s U Street – African American Civil War Memorial – Cardozo Metro stop were welcomed by dozens of people chanting names into microphones on a blustery November morning.