The Union faces off against the Confederacy in the first battle of the war. Lincoln soon realizes this war won’t be as brief as he thought, in this clip from Season 1, "A President At War." ...

The anniversary of the Battle of Brandy Station is June 9. On that day in 1863, during the Civil War, battle ensued for more just over half a day. Today, the American Battlefield Trust has preserved ...

From 1861 to 1865, the United States was ripped in two by war – with the Union in the North and the seceded states, the Confederacy, in the South. These four years witnessed unprecedented bloodshed, ...

April 6 witnessed pivotal US moments. The Civil War's Battle of Shiloh began in 1862. The Grand Army of the Republic formed ...

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, ...

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious world of the hit TV show Severance? The Battle of Cold Harbor was a ...

Great Battles of the Civil War combines archival material with faithfully created battle re-enactments to depict the real horror and heroism of the American Civil War combat from 1861-1863. Witness ...

More than a century before streaming platforms and superhero cinematic universes, American filmmakers were already chasing scale, spectacle, the war film and national history. One of the boldest ...