Civil War re-enactments are as old as the war itself. The first re-enactments are recorded as far back as 1861. ... Mark Guarino, The Washington Post. Bob Fragala, 53, of Mooresville, ...

The Civil War was the deadliest war in American history. It created a “republic of suffering,” Frederick Law Olmstead wrote as he viewed the dying and wounded on a hospital ship. Two percent ...

The era in United States history known as Reconstruction forms a sort of coda to the traumatic years of the American Civil War of 1861-1865. It also the ugly duckling of American history.

Former Baltimore Sun reporter John Bainbridge Jr., author of Gun Barons: The Weapons That Transformed America and the Men Who Invented, talked about the roles and impacts of gun manufacturers ...

When Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant after the Battle of Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, the South’s defeat in the Civil War had been all but assured. But as author Kidada ...

Arlington National Cemetery's Section 27 is the final resting place of more than 3,800 formerly enslaved people who escaped to Washington during the Civil War but died after they arrived. (John ...

The Peace Monument, also known as the Naval Monument or Civil War Sailors Monument, is framed by the Capitol dome on Jan. 4, 2021. (Susan Walsh/AP) Analysis by Philip Bump ...

In this blog post, Anya Jabour, Ph.D., reveals how most Americans in the Civil War era struggled to maintain familiar mourning rituals in death’s aftermath.

In this photo provided by The Valley Breeze, Civil War re-enactors participate in ceremonies during funeral services Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024, for the burial of the cremated remains of Byron R ...

The Civil War is an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers if ...