Here's a good thing to remember the next time your autofocus hunts in low light, or your memory card fills up at the wrong moment. The photographers who pointed a camera at armed conflict 160 years ...

Information on the Civil War is well-known, but what about some of the factors that led to its start? This week, we examine some of those issues and how, after years of growing tensions, the nation ...

The Civil War is often remembered through faded photographs and written accounts, making it feel distant and hard to fully grasp. When those images are brought to life in color, the past takes a new ...

The Union’s USS Monitor is considered by many to be the most famous ironclad ship of the American Civil War, if not the most famous ship of any kind. It shares the honor with its archnemesis, the ...

WASHINGTON — The largest and most dramatic paintings in “The Civil War and American Art” exhibit don’t have anything particularly warlike in them — no cannons or gun smoke or bayonets glistening in ...

U.S. News photo editors curate this month's most compelling images from at home and abroad. The Latest A standoff remains over the war launched by Israel and the United States. Here's a look back in ...