This lesson compares the experiences, roles, and legacies of Mary Todd Lincoln and Varina Davis, the wives of the Civil War era presidents. The lesson, which features historian Kelly Hancock speaking ...

The ladies took over the house in 1860 -- a year before the start of the Civil War -- at a time of fast-rising tensions between the North and South. "There was some nervousness about what might ...

Albert Cashier, an Irish immigrant who came to America sometime before the Civil War, watched the 15th Illinois Infantry Regiment march off to join Ulysses S. Grant and what would soon be called ...

While remembering the early years of an ‘Old Ladies’ Home’ in New Orleans that would later be known as Faith Home, Joanna P. Moore stated that after the Civil War, some of the saddest cases ...

"Incidents of the war: A harvest of death." The three days of conflict at Gettysburg resulted in 51,000 casualties, making it the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Courtesy: Library of Congress ...

Thousands of Civil War images, original 19th-century photographs from such renowned photographers as Timothy O'Sullivan and Alexander Gardner, lay perfectly preserved in the attic of the Medford ...

“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.” ...