This visual journey maps every major front, campaign, and turning point of the Civil War using detailed Google Earth animation.

HANNIBAL - At the beginning of the 20th Century, members of the William T. Sherman Post 43, Grand Army of the Republic, did ...

Abolitionists used hard facts to counter pro-slavery propaganda, forcing indifferent Americans to face ugly realities.

The date selected for this event was between Veterans Day, Nov. 11, and Nov. 19, which is when President Abraham Lincoln gave ...

The historical documentary master is at the top of his game in this thrillingly timely history lesson about democracy.

On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful 272-word speech, later known as the Gettysburg Address, dedicating a new cemetery on the site of the bloody Civil War battlefield.

In the 1840s, Parker was denied admission to the New York State bar, despite meeting all the requirements and training to ...

Ely Samuel Parker, a Native American who served as an aide to Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War, was kept from practicing ...

Book publishing and magazines expanded at no less prodigious rates: The 1850s saw the publication of Atlantic founding ...

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