"America Aflame" offers a wonderful portrait of a nation scarred yet transformed by a war that in retrospect seems as unnecessary as it was destructive.

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

A24’s ‘Civil War’ Movie Provokes Timing Debate Amid Some Fearing Actual Civil War The Alex Garland film is sparking discussion about its release during a contentious election year: "The idea ...

The American Civil War (1861-1865) was a conflict between the Union (North) and the Confederacy (South), primarily over slavery. Southern states seceded to protect slavery, while the North aimed ...

RECONSTRUCTION: AMERICA AFTER THE CIVIL WAR, a new four-hour documentary executive produced and hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., will premiere Tuesdays, April 9 and 16, 2019 on PBS nationwide ...

The Huntington Beach Historical Society hosts a free Civil War reenactment on Saturday and Sunday featuring live battles, ...

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

The Civil War changed the social, economic, and political landscape for women from every walk of American life—perhaps nowhere more so than in the field of nursing.

Civil division and its conquests are the true makers of America, and continue to shape its national progress—or threaten its undoing. Indeed, the very founding of the United States advanced the ...

From Reconstruction to Jim Crow to the Civil Rights era to the present, Americans have fought over the great issues at the heart of the conflict.