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

Capt. Walter Huchthausen strove tirelessly to stop the building from collapsing and ensured it would be preserved as it is ...

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

Jeffrey Rosen, lawyer and U.S. Constitution scholar, has written the second book in a series of constitutional contemplations, “The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting ...

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 ...

An annual battle reenactment will take place a the Fort Branch Civil War site in Hamilton next weekend, despite battle scars ...

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

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

This costly conflict spanned generations—and its brutal legacy endures. But why did the bloodshed go on for so long?

Join the Shippensburg Civil War Roundtable Nov. 18 for a talk on Aaron Jerome, Gettysburg’s signalman, presented by historian ...

In the span of 16 years in the back half of the 19th century, Americans watched as two of their presidents were struck down ...

Burns’s 12-hour documentary about our national origin story is landing in the middle of a culture war. Yes, it’s complicated.