Civil War officially began months after the Class of 1860 graduated. Two friends in class ended on opposite sides of war. One friend's yearbook and the other's memoir provides insight into the ...

In the 1960s, Houston was concerned with civil rights and the antiwar movement. In the 1860s Houston was concerned with civil rights and the antiwar movement. At the “Life in 1860 Houston: the Civil ...

The years immediately following the American Civil War presented an interesting dilemma for the Colt Patent Firearms Co. Its reliable percussion revolvers had been the most popular military sidearms ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Before the annual "Civil War Revisited" reenactment opens to the public, local school children get to experience history firsthand. It's a day their textbooks really come ...

The great Tony Horwitz has a good piece up at the site on the new movement among historians questioning the civil war as a good war: "We've decided the Civil War is a 'good war' because it destroyed ...

If you have ever wondered what it was like to live as a soldier, civilian or doctor during the American Civil War, Fort Whaley campground’s Civil War on the Shore in Whaleyville, Md. is your ...

PLATTSBURGH — “The Lemmon Case: 1852-1860, A Prelude to the Civil War” is on a 90-week tour to 45 courthouses across New York State. This panel exhibit of the landmark Court of Appeals case features a ...

Before Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in 2020, only one presidential election had resulted in massive violence against the federal government. That of course was the election of 1860, which was as ...

Jon Grinspan is curator of political history at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and the author of “Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War.