Kings and Generals begins a brand-new series on the American Civil War, starting with the crucial question: why did the South secede? This setup episode dives into the political, economic, and ...

From 1861 to 1865, the Union Army of the North fought the Confederate Army of the South to reunite the country and eventually abolish slavery. The books on this list -- fiction, nonfiction, classics, ...

IrishCentral Contributor Joseph Connell explores how Ireland's Civil War ignited with the shelling of Ireland's most ...

A commemorative Civil War Parade will be held in Worcester, including the Drumhead Service, will take place in the city in ...

Robert Smalls published a newspaper, established a transportation company and served five terms in the United States Congress ...

I was given plastic figures of Civil War battles with some bridges and decimated tress, but a lot of blue and gray plastic soldiers. And my brother and I would play all the time. - Blue and the ...

In the summer, you can read books in a hammock, you can read them by the sea, you can read them on your porch, you can read ...

Rising from a humble pikeman to Colonel General of Dorset within the English Civil War Society, he helps ensure events stay true to the past. “I aim to bring the period alive by first searching my ...

The Civil War began at 4:30 am on April 12, 1861 at Ft. Sumter, Charleston, SC. Confederate gunners fired on Ft. Sumter in Charleston, SC on April 12, 1861. Ft. Sumter fell 34 hours later. It was ...

“I want to learn things that will be useful in case of war; it’s my patriotic duty,” Kuczynski explains, assisted by Piotr Langenfeld, spokesman for the 7th Pomeranian Territorial Defense Brigade, who ...

Something miraculous was emerging from the mayhem of war. Yet it was bitter sweet. Local lad Fred Low lived in New Place, off Keeton’s Road. In the 1950s. He recalls: “I was friendly with the son of ...