In the 1860s, two brothers from Connecticut endeavored to photograph veterans of the American Revolution who could have ...

Death and the American Civil War. We’re talking about the costs of the war Maxwell—director of “Gods and Generals” and “Gettysburg”—has made a career of interpreting. “All of the ...

4:1 — The ratio of people who attended church weekly to those who voted in the 1860 election 2.5 — Approximate percentage of the American population that died in the Civil War 7 million ...

Editor's Note: Shauna Devine, Ph.D., is a historian of Civil War and American medicine ... While the cause of anesthetic death in the 1860s was not understood, we now know that when ...

basically since the American Civil War of the 1860s. This is not to say that Americans are ignorant, but rather especially privileged. Being a part of a country that has generally maintained ...

Things came to a head in 1860 when the northerner ... itself “thrilled by the death of our oppressor." The American Civil War left a bitter legacy. In the south, burned and devastated, the ...

Historians like to point to the 1860s, when the future face ... From there, Civil War takes us on a quick and dirty tour of American life during wartime, not from sea to shining sea but throughout ...