It would be the U.S. Navy’s biggest defeat until World War II and threatened to change the balance of power in American ...

But it is a very real place and the site of a major historical event—a disastrous Civil War battle still remembered as one of the most significant routs in American history. Is there any insight ...

However, these staggering numbers still offer profound insight into the immense tragedy experienced by the American people throughout the Civil War.

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...

19, 1863, at meandering West Chickamauga Creek in north Georgia, there occurred the most sanguinary two-day battle in the western theater of the American Civil War 150 years ago. The place-name ...

The expression Black Hawk Down, the title of a Hollywood film, has become shorthand for a 1993 US military disaster in ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Garry Adelman, a historian, rates nine American Civil War battles in movies. He comments on the Civil War-era artillery and rifles on display in "Free State of ...

On the evening of September 17, 1862, in the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam ... who went undercover behind enemy lines ...

An admiring British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill stated, "This is undoubtedly the greatest American battle of the war and will, I believe, be regarded as an ever-famous American victory." ...

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought ...

American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar The Historic ... which tells the story of the units who fought in the Battle of Forks Road. A new exhibit, "The Impending Crisis," helps visitors ...