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 ...

The smell of campfires and gunpowder were in the air at Burton Century Village Museum and Historical Education Center’s Civil War re-enactment. The encampment took place on May 24 at 14653 E. Park St.

During the American Civil War, Maine contributed almost two dozen regiments to the conflict. Over Memorial Day weekend, ...

BURTON — The premiere of a musical about abolitionist John Brown will be part of this weekend’s Civil War encampment at Century Village. “John Brown The Dulcimer Diaries,” written by Treva Offutt and ...

In the spring of 1861, the United States stood at its breaking point. For years, tensions between North and South had ...

Most corners of the country harbor old or erroneous markers of some kind. An NPR investigation examines the proliferation of Confederate markers and a century-long effort to recast the Civil War. You ...

PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WPRI) — The cremains of U.S. Civil War Union soldier and Pawtucket native Byron R. Johnson were laid to rest on Wednesday, more than a century after his death. The ceremonial burial ...