Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount ...
After his plane was shot down, Glenn H. Hodak was sent to a military prison in Tokyo, where he was killed by U.S. firebombing ...
4:1 — The ratio of people who attended church weekly to those who voted in the 1860 election 2.5 — Approximate percentage of the American population that died in the Civil War 7 million ...
The American Civil War was arguably one of the most devastating conflicts in the history of the United States. Fought over slavery, it divided families and communities and, of course, the nation.
The first organization of its kind was the Office of Correspondence with Friends of the Missing Men of the United States Army which was started during the Civil War (March 1865) by Clara Barton ...
Historical novelists Chris Bohjalian and Christina Baker Kline for a discussion about Bohjalian’s latest book, “The Jackal’s Mistress.” ...