Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War.

We took our detectors into the woods of Alabama and uncovered a forgotten wagon road dating back to the 1800s. Heath Jones from the History Seekers used his Minelab Equinox 800 to pull a silver coin, ...

The Libertyville Historical Society is racing to save the rapidly deteriorating 165-year-old banner by fundraising $30,000 to ...

The Union soldiers were driving 900 head of cattle towards Louisville when they were surprised by a Confederate attack where ...

Elizabeth Drew, a Washington-based journalist, argues that the capital is more on edge now than at any time since the Civil War in 1860 as Donald Trump tests the constitution in unprecedented ways ...

FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY IN DES MOINES. GLENDALE CEMETERY. THE REMAINS OF 15 UNION CIVIL WAR VETERANS RESTED IN UNMARKED GRAVES, UNMARKED UNTIL TODAY. KCCI’S KAYLA JAMES SHARES THE EFFORTS TO ...

Harper’s Weekly, June 3, 1865 They were known as the Special Artists of the Civil ... war for the North, and the rules were often sternly applied. Harper’s Weekly was banned for carrying maps ...

Knowing this, our minds fill in the map with logic ... every decade leading up to the Civil War (the growth rate was a mere 10 percent between 1850 and 1860), by 1810 the South had a free black ...

This media landscape helped bring about the Civil ... war. A dispersed, partisan media exaggerated such falsehoods like a national game of telephone. By the time Lincoln won election in November ...

Tensions in American society today have analysts hurriedly investigating the origins of America’s Civil War ... the “inaugural means war.” Southerners felt their 1860 electoral loss was ...

Indeed, many participants on the Confederate side of the Civil War would go on to join the organization, including John C. Breckinridge, a Lexington native who ran for president in 1860 and sided ...