The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount in Franklin County, Virginia.

Author and professor Michael Vorenberg joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book 'Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is being punished by his party for not causing a government shutdown.

Russian financial and military contributions have been credited with helping the SAF achieve its gains in recent months.

The Carter House, a historic farm built in 1830 that landed at the center of the Battle of Franklin, is getting an $8.5 million makeover with a new visitor's center. A groundbreaking event will be ...

Virginia and the Forging of a Nation” opens in conjunction with the 250th anniversary of Patrick Henry’s famous speech made ...

"The new center will allow us to tell these powerful stories until at least the 200th anniversary of the American Civil War." For more information about the Tennessee Historical Commission and the ...

I published Subtle Tools, a book on the erosion of American democratic norms in the face of what came to be known as the ...

A New York Times reporter and photographer were the first Western journalists to visit central Khartoum since the civil war ...