Nation marks anniversary of start of Civil War. April 12, 2011 -- Walt Whitman, one of America's most revered authors and poets, is best known for his "Leaves of Grass" collection but the National ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY, N.Y. (CBS Newspath/WWNY/WKRC) -The Jefferson County Historical Society is bursting with a new and unexpected collection. "A gentleman contacted us last Friday and claimed to have ...

PHILADELPHIA — Officials at a small Civil War museum made an intriguing discovery while sifting through storage: A document long treated as a photo reproduction of the terms of Gen. Robert E. Lee's ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – Letters and diaries from those who lived through the Civil War offer a new glimpse at the arguments that split the nation 150 years ago and some of the festering debates that survive ...

An enormous cache of recently discovered Civil War letters and other 19th century documents has been donated to Virginia Tech by a descendant of a Confederate general who later played a key role in ...

SPRINGFIELD — Following the Confederacy’s 1861 attack on Fort Sumter, often viewed as the event that sparked the Civil War, then-President Abraham Lincoln had to decide how to retaliate against the ...

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - We are counting down to America’s 250th birthday next summer! All year long, we are sharing our “We The People” series highlighting the people, places, and things of the past ...

On Saturday, between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., the Library of Virginia will have a team here at the Culpeper County Library to scan Civil War era documents owned by private individuals. This initiative, “The ...

BLACKSBURG, Va. (WDBJ/Gray News) - What’s now known as the Glencoe Museum in Radford used to be the home of Civil War Confederate Gen. Gabriel Wharton. The home was passed down to his family, and when ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Following the Confederacy’s 1861 attack on Fort Sumter, often viewed as the event that sparked the Civil War, then-President Abraham Lincoln had to decide how to retaliate against ...