Is civil war looming in the United States? This has been a recurring contention among some political commentators and ...

Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...

150 years later, and Americans still cannot agree on the meaning of the Civil War. The conflict began in April 1861, and by the time it was over four years later more than 600,000 soldiers - both ...

The first shots of the American Civil War were fired 150 years ago in the Charleston, S.C., harbor. Less than two days later, Fort Sumter surrendered.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (Associated Press) - On this day 10 years ago, South Carolina pulled the Confederate battle flag from its ...

150 Years of Misunderstanding the Civil War. As the anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg approaches, it's time for America to question the popular account of a war that tore apart the nation.

And this is how the Civil War comes to life for a roomful of fourth-graders in Northern Virginia, 150 years after the nation’s deadliest armed conflict began.

The Civil War Years 1861-1865. Darrell G. Riley, ... According to an interview with her in the 1890s, she recalled the war years as the period she spent most of her time in the saddle.