Archaeologists in Virginia were excavating the grounds of a building that stored gunpowder during the American Revolution ...

American colonists who aligned with the British lost their lands, their reputations and sometimes even their lives ...

The Union soldiers were driving 900 head of cattle towards Louisville when they were surprised by a Confederate attack where ...

Ken Burns, Ric Burns, Buddy Squires, and Allen Moore discuss the making of The Civil War ... Our American Cousin. Footfalls, and door slams, and done all of that. We hadn't laid down the gunshot.

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U.S. President Abraham Lincoln called for volunteers to fight for the Union Army as the Civil War broke out between the ...