In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

Forgotten Civil War Memorial found in Alton apartment building ...

Donald Trump was mocked online for seemingly not knowing when the civil war ended, causing users to claim their own president ...

Harrison resident Eric Schmitt was well aware of his family’s unique lineage growing up. The 55-year-old is a descendent of ...

More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book with “April 1865: The Month That Saved America.” His latest book covers the period ...

The Civil War ended in 1865, but for Minnesota and the one-time rebel state of Virginia, the battle continues over a prized ...

President Donald Trump, speaking about war as he attempts to decide whether or not to actively support Israel by bombing Iran, appeared to confuse America’s war for independence —the Revolutionary War ...

This week marks the anniversary of the greatest battle in the United States’ Civil War. That battle, at Gettysburg, was ...

In a recent conversation with a journalist , Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized the enduring and historically ...

In the aftermath of two tragic wars perpetrated and rationalized on the socially constructed notion of “race” and racial ...

David Williams, . . New Press, $29.95 (594pp) ISBN 978-1-59558-018-4 This hefty but readable social history by a confessed disciple of Howard Zinn reframes the Civil War as a conflict not simply ...