This American civil war has been a long time coming. We have returned to it because we never resolved the nation’s original sins.

More than a century before streaming platforms and superhero cinematic universes, American filmmakers were already chasing ...

African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction, Oxford University Press, 2012, 264 pp., $30.54 ...

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 ...

A new monument honoring 70 Black men from Franklin County who served in the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War was unveiled Sunday in Rocky Mount, highlighting a chapter of local history long ...

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 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Some Civil War historians see echoes of the past in recent political violence and growing disillusionment with the ...