His hopes lasted a little over a month before, on April 12, the nation was thrust into one of the bloodiest military conflicts in U.S. history. With the 160th anniversary of the Civil War's conclusion ...

University of Tennessee archaeological students working at a former campus parking lot uncovered additional sections of a ...

“To speak as the slave would, to say that we are as happy for the Civil War as most Americans are for the Revolutionary War, is to rupture the narrative.” ...

37 —Abraham Lincoln The Civil War was about slavery ... “one of the most memorable epochs in the history of the world.” 44 It was an unmistakable signal that the moral arguments against ...

The American Civil War was arguably one of the most devastating conflicts in the history of the United States. Fought over slavery, it divided families and communities and, of course, the nation.

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Author William Styple talked about the childhood of artist James Kelly, who would go on to interview dozens of Union Civil War generals after the war to understand their war and depict it in art. The ...

This unique approach to the Civil War sheds new light on how whiteness and access to territory formed an integral part of American immigration history. Also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

GREENFIELD – Maranda Anderson wanted to do more than just tell her students about the Civil War. She wanted them to get their hands on a bit of history. Last week, she shared a trunk full of ...

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Their subject? The Civil War. Michael McElreath called them to attention. McElreath works for the North Carolina History Center on the Civil War, Emancipation and Reconstruction. The new museum ...