While metal detecting near the Battle of Port Hudson, we began uncovering Civil War artifacts that now lead us to believe we ...

Work is being done to preserve an important part of Civil War history. Sign up for our Newsletters The Gettysburg Cyclorama, ...

This article was written by Jim Beaugez. The surrender of Vicksburg by Confederate Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton to Union forces ...

The Lancaster Cemetery, with grave markers dating back to the American Revolution, has partnered with the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War ... funeral on July 4, 1863, in Lancaster was ...

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...

People often don’t realize the revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment, and conservatives in particular downplay its revolutionary nature. American historians have for a long time treated the ...

The American Civil War (1861–1865) remains one of the most defining chapters in the nation’s past, forging our modern ...

During the Civil War, in July 1862 when the Army of the Potomac was in camp, Brig. Gen. Daniel Butterfield summoned Pvt. Oliver Wilcox Norton, his brigade bugler, to his tent. Butterfield, who ...

What story, for example, does a piece of stale hardened cracker in the society’s collection tell us about a Civil War soldier in ... from late June to early July 1863, most of the Union Army ...

In Manhattan, during the Draft Riots of July 1863, thousands of poor and desperate ... which forced men to join the Union Army during the Civil War. First, the rioters set fire to the draft ...

Johnson deploys Army after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination In response to the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968 ... Draft Riots” in 1863, about two ...

Brian Pease was in his element as he stood at the front of the Grand Army of the Republic Hall and led a Civil War Roundtable discussion in August. It wasn’t just because his presentation ...