Four years of conflict between North and South reshaped the United States forever. In just one minute, this video highlights ...

Few figures in the American Civil War inspired as much fear as these three fighters. This video profiles their battlefield ...

Dr. Allen C. Guelzo gives perspective on what the American Civil War was really about. Dr. Allen C. Guelzo the Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar at Princeton University talks about ...

The Civil War was the deadliest conflict ever fought on American soil with approximately 620,000 fatalities, according to History.com. Recent analysis could even suggest these numbers are higher ...

The parallels between Argentina's "Dirty War" and the one ongoing in the United States could not be more clear.

The Civil War started in April 1861 and raged for over four years. From Fort Sumter to Appomattox and beyond, here are the most basic facts you need.

Civil war—the battle over how, or whether, we belong to one another—thus demands nothing less than transformation. Disbelieving war makes it inevitable.

The American Civil War was by far the deadliest conflict in U.S. history. From the start of the war in April 1861, with the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, until General Robert E. Lee’s ...

This war will not be fought like the American Revolution or the Civil War of 1861-65, where disciplined armies observed the laws of war and respected civilian lives.

A world war on American soil: How the Civil War became a global struggle When the Union and the Confederacy charged into battle in 1861, the whole world was watching — and waiting ...

Overview of the Lesson - Landmines and the American Civil War Author Ken Rutherford provides an overview of his lecture about the early history of landmines, which were used for the first time on ...