Another veteran of the American Civil War who died in obscurity in England is finally receiving recognition of his service.

Matt VanAcker said the conservation efforts will allow visitors to view the flag as it was when it returned to the county in ...

The African American Civil War Memorial Museum (AACWM) held its annual Reading of the Names on Nov. 11, honoring more than 200,000 United States Colored Troops. While the event marked a major moment ...

As the final months of the American Civil War unfolded, we follow how a long-fractured nation moved from brutal fighting ...

The Huntington acquires the Civil War-era Winslow Homer masterwork, "The Sutler's Tent"; Robert Therrien at the Broad; and ...

With co-directors David Schmidt and Sarah Botstein, he tells America’s origin story in his new film, “ The American ...

There's a danger in making veterans into secular saints. The saints don’t need us to give their deaths meaning; they died fully rewarded. Americans went into the Civil War believing that God was on ...

In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its ...

In his latest project, Ken Burns turns his lens to the American Revolution — an event he has called the most significant ...

The Confederacy’s theory of victory at the start of the Civil War was straightforward — so logical, the historian Emory M.