For decades, historians have cobbled together clues. But thanks to a newly released set of census records spanning three ...

Frey Professor of Southern Studies at Louisiana State University and the chairman of the History Department. He teaches courses on nineteenth-century US history, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and ...

Researching her family history, Cheryl Wills found she was related to a former slave who served in the Civil War with the ...

or with the subject of birth – the American Civil War. Jane’s association with that bloody struggle came via her seventh child, Michael. He had been among the c. 250,000 ethnic Irishmen who ...

A documentary special provides an overview of the U.S. military across the centuries, mostly focusing on the American ...

Andrew Marr describes how the American Civil War and Abraham Lincoln, changed American history forever. The focus is on Abraham Lincoln’s role in the conflict and his assassination. Scenes shown ...

In American history, there has never quite been a conflict like the Civil War. Brother against brother, North against South, ...

Civil War reenactors fold an American flag near an urn, center, containing the cremated remains of Union ... The task of ...

American Civil War soldier Daniel Walterhouse was wounded ... do hands-on projects related to social issues and topics such ...

The American Civil War Museum actually comprises three sites: The American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar and the White House of the Confederacy can both be found in Richmond, while the ...