If violence erupts, that will provide an excuse to send troops to crush "insurrectionists." That strategy might work, but ...

Trace the real causes of the American Civil War in this first part of a detailed historical series, covering the key events and tensions from 1819 to 1861. Uncover how decades of political conflict, ...

Cecily Zander, an assistant professor of history at the University of Wyoming, has earned the 2025 Center for Civil War ...

When the Confederacy captured the Ironclad uss Indianola during the American Civil War, the Union's Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter thought up a ruse to make sure it wouldn't be salvaged and used ...

Discover how Civil War photos changed the way Americans saw war at a free lecture on Oct. 20 hosted by the Cleo Redd Fisher ...

In September of 1861, Thomas Meagher began recruiting Irishmen to form a new Irish brigade. In honor of St. Patrick’s Day (known in Gaelic as Lá Fhéile Pádraig, i.e. “the Day of the Festival of ...

The Cleo Redd Fisher Museum will host a free public lecture exploring how photography forever changed the way Americans ...

PITTSBURGH-As the Civil War was raging, thousands of American readers would wait to get news on the conflict every seven days from Harper’s Weekly, then the most widely-read periodical in the United ...

EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman produced Civil War epic 'The Gray House' has landed with Prime Video in the U.S.

Florida was the third state to secede from the Union during the Civil War. Around 15,000 Floridians fought in the Civil War, representing the highest percentage of any Confederate state. Florida faced ...