He suppressed his disenchantment with religion and, in March 1861, applied to the African Civilization Society, which was ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying ...

Civil War surgeons learned fast. Here are a few of the MacGyver-like medical solutions that have had a lasting impact.

Lincoln’s time as a young man on the make had made him think hard about the relationship between Americans and their ...

The series, which is sold out this year, takes place at the Hilton Naples, featuring a buffet breakfast, a talk by a ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The Bellamy Mansion was built between 1859 and 1861. The mansion was built by free and enslaved ...

American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy.

While her activities as a Civil War spy are less well known, her devotion to America and its promise of freedom endured ...

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...