Brig. Gen. Stand Watie, commander of the 1st Indian Brigade of the Confederate Army of the Trans-Mississippi and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation in what is now Oklahoma ... had been fighting two civil wars—one against the United States and another against fellow Cherokees.

Some 40 percent of enslaved Africans entered the country through Charleston

Archaeologists have found a pit where two soldiers and some amputated arms and legs were buried after the Civil War’s Second Battle of Bull Run near Manassas.

This story came across my news feed this morning. That sound you hear is coming from racist confederacy supporters across the country going bonkers. When this action is complete, Richmond, Virginia…

The punkahs of the Antebellum era served many purposes.

THE CIVIL WAR DEVASTATED THE SOUTH AND SAVAGED THE ARMIES OF BOTH SIDES, exacting a casualty toll that made it one of the costliest wars in modern times and the worst in American history. At the heart of the bloody struggle lay the grand strategy of the North. As with grand strategy through­ out history, …

Defining Ulysses S. Grant has become more complex. The general’s reputation has been trending upward thanks to the work of recent historians.

Group dedicates time and effort memorializing forgotten soldiers who fought in the war between states but later died in relative obscurity.

In 1931, she sought to publish an important piece of American history. Instead that oral history languished in a vault. Until now.

When a general worried about Lee's next move, Grant tersely replied, "I am heartily tired of hearing what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land on our rear and on both our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what we are going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do." By Gregory A. Mertz.

It should be torn down like the Confederate monuments. By Charles P. Pierce.

Just days after the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre. As a fractured nation mourned, a manhunt closed in on his assassin, the twenty-six-year-old actor, John Wilkes Booth.

Every general should receive the attention his services merit. Here are 10 leaders whose service to the Union cause makes them Civil War notables.

Historic Detroit home once occupied by President Ulysses S. Grant may be relocated from the former Michigan State Fairgrounds to the Dequindre Cut.

We started this podcast because we wanted to share our passion for history with others, and because we think the Civil War is not only a fascinating story from the past but is also important to understanding the America we live in today. By Rich and Tracy Y.

No one knows for sure if there is trove of gold in the state, or at least no one is saying. But interest in a longstanding story was heightened this week when F.B.I. representatives showed up.

A treasure hunting group that has been dismissed for years as chasing folklore is now surrounded by the FBI and Pennsylvania State officials on their dig.

David S. Reynolds reviews "The Afterlives of Specimens: Science, Mourning, and Whitman’s Civil War" by Lindsay Tuggle and "Drum-Taps: The Complete 1865 Edition" by Walt Whitman, edited by Lawrence Kramer.

Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Until May 28, 2018 The first major international traveling exhibit of photographer Sally Mann, which premiered at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., March 4, showcases more than 100 of her photographs, including almost a dozen views of Civil War battlefields, including …

One of the most famous naval battles in history occurs as the ironclads Monitor and Virginia fight to a draw off Hampton Roads, Virginia. The ships pounded each other all morning but the armor plates easily shed the cannon…