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 ...

The city of Philippi is celebrating its place in history as the location of the first land battle of the Civil War with the annual Blue and Gray Reunion.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WKRN) — The sprawling city Murfreesboro was once a tiny town of about 3,000 people during one of the most consequential battles of the Civil War: the Battle of Stones River. The ...

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, ...

PLEASANT HILL, La. — In the spring of 1864, northwest Louisiana became the center of one of the Civil War’s most ambitious and consequential Union offensives. Known as the Red River Campaign, the ...