The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

In this new episode of Kings and Generals’ Civil War series, we cover the Battle of Fredericksburg—one of the bloodiest and ...

Kings and Generals launches its animated historical documentary series on the American Civil War by asking the essential ...

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

After the Civil War, 18 veterans of the United States Colored ... The passionate man labeled as the “most influential African American of the nineteenth century.” This is his voice.

4:1 — The ratio of people who attended church weekly to those who voted in the 1860 election 2.5 — Approximate percentage of the American population that died in the Civil War 7 million ...

It plunged into a civil war in 2013 and then again three years later, until the violence was stopped by a fragile ceasefire agreement in 2018. The nation is governed by a coalition government ...

The American Civil War Museum actually comprises three sites: The American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar and the White House of the Confederacy can both be found in Richmond, while the ...

One Texan newspaper professed itself “thrilled by the death of our oppressor." The American Civil War left a bitter legacy. In the south, burned and devastated, the whites remained very angry ...