What did the Civil War do to railroading? The changes were rapid, profound, lasting, and formed the real basis of truly ...

One hundred sixty years ago, at Spotsylvania Courthouse, Ulysses S. Grant was looking for some kind of breakthrough against ...

In their unanimous opinion, the justices wrote that this was directly traceable to race, particularly the poor education ...

A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, sold for $468,000 at an Ohio auction house last month.

The corpse was a stage prop, but the tears and wails that greeted it were real. The civil war has killed an estimated 6,500 people, most of them civilians, and displaced nearly 1 million since 2016.

The Wednesday attacks — the latest salvo in a two-year war between Sudan’s army and the Rapid Support Forces militia — targeted the Flamingo Bay naval base, according to two port officials ...

A plurality of Americans who responded to the Economist/YouGov survey said the country is more politically unstable now than during the Great Depression or the Civil War, the poll found.

When large bipartisan majorities of Congress enacted and subsequently amended the nation’s major civil rights laws during ...

The Hershey Civil War Roundtable will meet next on Thursday, May 15, at the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 542, 8000 Derry St., Harrisburg. It’s scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m. and will be ...

South Carolina is one of only four states to observe the day as a state holiday, celebrating the lives of soldiers who fought to preserve slavery.

The American Civil War is a pivotal and ugly moment in American history, but it's more misunderstood than you would think. We're breaking down some myths about Lincoln, women soldiers, racist ...