An Ira Civil War surgeon's letters detailing the carnage he saw and treated were so fascinating to Chris Loperfido that he decided to make a book out of them. The book, "Death and Disease in the Civil ...

The fabric of what binds America together at this point is basically on its final thread,” one source tells WIRED.

Prologue: John Brown's raid -- Slavery comes to America -- Slavery's great foe -- and unintended friend -- The first Emancipation Proclamation -- One head turning into thirteen -- The forgotten ...

Online posts and articles suggest that a place named the Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was "a concentration camp … established by Union soldiers to eradicate the slaves" during the Civil ...

The notorious Andersonville Prison, the largest and deadliest of the Confederacy’s prisoner-of-war camps during the Civil War, operated for only 14 months. But by the time the open-air camp shut down ...

Sudan's ongoing, three-year-long civil war has recently intensified, with civilians increasingly affected by the conflict.