The first shot of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War was fired by a man from DuPage County. Lt. Marcellus E. Jones of the 8th Illinois Calvary was on patrol outside Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, ...

One of the main things war movies try to show is a real-life battle or siege to spruce things up a bit and keep audiences invested in them. It's a common tactic amongst both good and bad films, as ...

Historical epics have long captivated audiences with grand battle sequences that utilize cinema’s power to depict huge armies, violent confrontation, and earth-shattering chaos. Whether it's ancient ...

The American Civil War has been the subject of many great movies, from Gettysburg to The Outlaw Josey Wales, often depicting the brutality of the conflict through heroic figures. While some of these ...

Reenactors and presenters brought visitors back to the early 1860s for Century Village Museum’s 41st annual Civil War Living History Weekend. Union and Confederate soldiers encamped and mingled with ...

More than a century before streaming platforms and superhero cinematic universes, American filmmakers were already chasing scale, spectacle and national history. One of the boldest examples is The ...

Dan Orr, a volunteer tour guide at Gettysburg National Military Park, shares the story of his ancestor, Patrick Farrington.