Kings and Generals' animated historical documentary series on early modern history and the United States continues with a new chapter: the American Civil War. This episode begins with the ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Garry Adelman, a historian, rates nine American Civil War battles in movies. He comments on the Civil War-era artillery and rifles on display in "Free State of ...

Throughout the war, fighting was largely concentrated in areas around the border between Southern slave states and Northern free states. Still, Civil War battles spread across a total of 23 states ...

The Battle of Gettysburg, considered to be one of the most important battles of the American Civil War, came to an end on ...

America’s Civil War raged outside their windows. A new museum tells their stories. Gettysburg’s newest museum uncovers the stories of the townspeople who lived there: those who fed the ...

The Battle of Gettysburg, fought on the first three days of July in 1863, resulted in more than 51,000 total casualties (dead, wounded, missing, captured), including more than 7,000 dead, yet it began ...

The Battle of Gettysburg saw excessive heat and a severe thunderstorm, likely piling on the casualties to the biggest battle of the Civil War.

The Battle of Antietam is easily one of the most significant events in the Civil War. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history and resulted in a decisive Union victory.

A Civil War painting depicting a pivotal battle fought by Vermonters is coming back to the Green Mountain State.