In the spirit of America’s Black History Month, which is celebrated every February, I am continuing my tradition of writing columns that focus on the unique experiences, trials, and triumphs of Black ...

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

Photograph showing Union soldiers with rifles at attention in front of the Capitol. May 13, 1861. Courtesy: Library of Congress Whitman was forty-two years old when the Civil War started.

Editor's Note: Shauna Devine, Ph.D., is a historian of Civil War and American medicine ... Devine chronicles the introduction of general inhalation anesthesia and how it transformed medical ...

Eleven southern states decided to break away from the Union, and established an independent ... by the death of our oppressor." The American Civil War left a bitter legacy. In the south, burned ...

The Lancaster Cemetery, with grave markers dating back to the American Revolution, has partnered with the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War to raise ... where the major general was killed.