The 1850s and 1860s in America saw the rise of the “sentimental domestic idea.” Women were held up as examples of purity, piety, and submissiveness. In the American antebellum period, precise and ...

The emancipation of slaves is central to the story of the American Civil War. But as curator and photographic historian Deborah Willis discovered growing up in the 1950s and ’60s, the Black people who ...

Trace the real causes of the American Civil War in this first part of a detailed historical series, covering the key events and tensions from 1819 to 1861. Uncover how decades of political conflict, ...

The political, ideological, and economic impacts of the conflict were felt around the world, and especially in the nations of France and Great Britain, who had the most to gain or lose in this ...

Fought from 1861 to 1865 as the nation became diametrically opposed on the issue of the expansion and preservation of slavery, or the abolition of it, the American Civil War remains one of the most ...