PBS' six-part, 12-hour documentary lets Burns, Sarah Botstein and David P. Schmidt dive deep into all-too-relevant U.S.

Historic Washington State Park, in partnership with the Nevada County Depot Museum, is offering local schools and community ...

In the next 56 minutes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar of the Civil War, slavery, and of Frederick Douglas, offered a ...

In 1940 the first Civil War Roundtable was founded in Chicago. The Lehigh Valley’s is named the Civil War Roundtable of ...

A bill to dedicate a stretch of M-22 in Peshawbestown to Native American volunteer Civil War soldiers of Company K remai ...

The City of Hickman, Kentucky dedicated an “In Memory Of” headstone to John Hughey, who served in the U.S. Army.

Both the Union and the Confederacy believed God was on their side, using faith to justify their respective causes. Tyler Rice of Columbus, Ohio is a freelance historian specializing in religion and ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Some Civil War historians see echoes of the past in recent political violence and growing disillusionment with the ...

Ken Burns says his latest epic documentary shows America has been deeply divided since its earliest days, but that the story ...

British abolitionists recognized the contradiction in the colonists’ position. One of the founders of the abolitionist ...

A monument in “old” St. Joseph Cemetery in Bedford is undergoing restoration. Along with patching, repainting, landscaping, and installing new lights, two new flags were hoisted up: an American flag ...