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

The Carter House, a historic farm built in 1830 that landed at the center of the Battle of Franklin, is getting an $8.5 ...

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.

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

This lesson compares the experiences, roles, and legacies of Mary Todd Lincoln and Varina Davis, the wives of the Civil War era presidents. The lesson, which features historian Kelly Hancock speaking ...

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

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

Harriet wanted to bring vivid scenes of the cruelty of slavery “to the hearts and minds of every American,” and she ... and the causes of a great Civil War began to foment.

The musicians of the Union and Confederate armies provided strong memories of the homes left behind for the battlefield. Fact or Fiction? The Legend of the QWERTY Keyboard (03:36) What Does a ...