The upcoming release of A24’s Civil War during a contentious presidential election year comes amid worry about the prospect of an actual civil war — or, at least, real-life political violence — and ...

Ironically, no film this year has pitted critics against each other like Alex Garland’s Civil War. In one corner, writers who decry the film’s lack of specifics about the titular conflict. In the ...

VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in Civil War history. As a small Black girl, she would walk to school through ...

The year is 1849. Martin Van Buren has just been sworn in for his fourth term as president. Every state from the Carolinas on south secedes from the Union. The U.S. Army occupies Richmond to keep ...

The Alex Garland film is sparking discussion about its release during a contentious election year: "The idea of civil war actually keeps me up at night." By James Hibberd Writer-at-Large Civil War ...

The US state of Virginia saw some 50% of the nation's Civil War casualties. Now, mass construction of AI data centres is encroaching on historic lands, the environment and local communities. As the ...

Vicksburg National Military Park Chief of Interpretation Brendan Wilson, left, conducts a ceremony of remembrance with two Civil War reenactors and Thelma Sims Dukes, center, and her niece Sara Sims ...

This tense election season is also peak season at a popular landmark of the American past: the Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania. Nearly one million people visit the Civil War ...

In this Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016, Petersburg National Battlefield Superintendent Lewis Rogers poses at the park's headquarters in Petersburg, Va. The national park in Virginia could expand by more than ...

Volunteers of a little-known group called the Williamsburg Battlefield Association have come together in an effort to tell forgotten stories of the citizens, soldiers and enslaved people of the Civil ...

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