James Henry Gooding wrote to Lincoln to demand equal pay for Black Civil War soldiers. Here's his story, including a wedding ...

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 ...

There are 15 names on a stone monument in a shoulder of the cemetery that stand as a testament to the struggle for a living ...

The Civil War is often remembered through faded photographs and written accounts, making it feel distant and hard to fully grasp. When those images are brought to life in color, the past takes a new ...

The gear carried by American soldiers in WWII looks nothing like what their Civil War ancestors hauled into battle — yet some essentials surprisingly stayed the same. While WWII troops had ...