The fabric of what binds America together at this point is basically on its final thread,” one source tells WIRED.

On July 8, 1862, 150 years ago, during the American Civil War, an important meeting occurred between Commander-in-Chief Abraham Lincoln and his leading Union general, George B. McClellan. It took ...

Bob Whisonant is a Civil War buff with a peculiar way of looking at the Civil War. If you ask him to talk about, say, the Battle of Antietam, he might begin, “Well, it all started 500 million years ...

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Discover how Civil War photos changed the way Americans saw war at a free lecture on Oct. 20 hosted by the Cleo Redd Fisher ...

Relive the greatest crisis ever faced by the United States as this unique documentary traces the history of the Civil War from its origins through to the final tragic act of Lincoln's assassination.

SHERIDAN — On Jan. 16, 1865, John Prentice, a soldier in the Union Army in the American Civil War, participated in a battalion drill in Savannah, Georgia. In the three years prior, he’d witnessed and ...

The Stonewall Jackson statue, once a prominent fixture in Charlottesville’s Court Square, has resurfaced dramatically ...

As living World War II vets continue to leave us, and Vietnam Vets push their 80s, fewer and fewer American citizens will have experienced prolonged war via conscription. A volunteer Army has led to ...

For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage facilities at a funeral home and cemetery in Seattle. The simple copper and cardboard ...