One might well wonder why an inland city was selected as the site of a Civil War naval museum. The answer is twofold.

Civil War veterans from Edwardsville Post 461 gathered for a historic 1912 portrait on the library steps.

Elizabeth Van Lew, a Southern belle turned Union spymaster, exemplifies true heroism during the Civil War, challenging the diluted modern concept of a hero.

The Friendship Train: A True Story of Helping and Healing After World War II Debbie Levy, illus. by Boris Kulikov. Bloomsbury, $20.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-5476-0802-7 ...

Historian Jay Winik writes about the leadup to the outbreak of the Civil War in “1861: The Lost Peace.” The' Andrew DeMillo ...

Port Hudson, Louisiana - once the site of a fierce Civil War siege—is now the backdrop for one of our most exciting relic hunts. Join us as we uncover a soldier’s sword, an artillery shell from the ...

The Scopes “monkey trial” garnered international attention, and the battle that was fought continues in some form in other ...

In the spring of 1925, few people had heard of the small town of Dayton, Tennessee. By that summer, few people hadn’t heard ...

A fire that engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, destroying one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War ...

Some people thought the 1925 Scopes monkey trial marked a cultural defeat for biblical fundamentalism. But a century after ...

War is boring as hell in “The Damned,” an austere western drama set far from the battlefields on the 1862 frontier. It seeks not to tell a story but to capture a set of feelings. None of them ...

After years of gradual progress toward stability, a succession battle is pushing the country to the precipice of another full-blown civil war. By Abdi Latif Dahir Reporting from Nairobi ...