Discover West Virginia, the Mountain State, renowned for its stunning landscapes. Explore its vibrant capital, Charleston, ...

In the early morning hours of June 20, 1864, hundreds of Union soldiers arriving through light fog on the James River crept ...

What is known is that Cape Girardeau, under the command of Brigadier General John McNiel, was the southernmost Union-held city in the region. A Confederate Brigadier General named John Marmaduke led ...

Drawing his title from Lincoln’s 1858 “House Divided” speech, independent scholar Hyslop, author of several works on the American West, makes the case that in opening territories to slavery, westward ...

There’s something undeniably magical about standing on weathered wooden planks that have witnessed the passage of history, and Pennsylvania’s Sachs Covered Bridge delivers that time-traveling ...

Rivalries are the lifeblood of college football. But their history is often inextricably intertwined with the history of our nation.

Join us on a historic tour of Fort Sumter, the site where the American Civil War began. During our visit with the National Park Service, we discovered an artillery projectile still lodged in the brick ...

A new collection of primary source documents, "The 1863 Stibbs Family Civil War Era Letters," is the third set of letters from the Stibbs family.

Choose from 4,695 Civil War stock illustrations from iStock. Find high-quality royalty-free vector images that you won't find anywhere else.

The African American Civil War Museum in D.C. marked Juneteenth with a celebration to honor the estimated 6,000 Black soldiers who went to Galveston, Texas, 160 years ago.

President Donald Trump suggested that he could have handled the Civil War better than then-President Abraham Lincoln in a meeting with reporters at The White House on Wednesday. “The Civil War ...

The Raid Behind the Movie Former National Park Service historian Dr. Smith has written several notable Civil War books, such as Grant Invades Tennessee, and in his new work, we get an outstanding ...