Charleston, South Carolina became the ignition point for the U.S. Civil War when Confederate forces bombarded Fort Sumter, ...

Object Details Author Covey, Herbert C Eisnach, Dwight Contents The Works Progress Administration narratives and the Civil War -- Civil War living conditions for slaves -- Ex-slave accounts of battles ...

President Donald Trump is being hammered on social media after claiming the Civil War “could’ve been solved” without more than 600,000 people being killed in the conflict.

The ruins of a slave cabin still remain in South Carolina where Harriet Tubman led a raid of Union troops during the Civil War that freed 700 enslaved people.© Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via ...

Archaeologists at Colonial Williamsburg recently announced the discovery of four Confederate soldier skeletons, revealing a makeshift hospital from the 1862 Battle of Williamsburg.

A white Illinois teen attaches himself to a regiment of Black Union soldiers in the satirical Civil War novel "How to Dodge a Cannonball." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with author Dennard Dayle about it.

Democrats were more likely to view a civil war in the near future as possible, according to the poll.

Archaeologists recently announced the discovery of skeletons at Colonial Williamsburg – but the skeletons weren’t from the Revolutionary War.

Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was short on a crucial supply, the absence of which threatened to sap the fighting strength of the Northern army: coffee. This critical source of energy ...

The largest pre-Civil War mansion in all of the American South burned to the ground as a devastating fire ripped through the historic wooden structure built nearly 200 years ago. Flames broke out ...

A Juneteenth celebration on Detroit's east side shows the important role Camp Ward played during and after the Civil War.