More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to the outbreak of the bloodiest conflict in the history of North America? A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the ...

The new six-episode documentary series 'Thomas Jefferson' examines the third president's legacy of racism and his supposed early plan for emancipation GraphicaArtis/Getty Imagine a world where the ...

The Civil War Monitor, a quarterly magazine, once dubbed it “the hardest test in history ... when Ken Burns’ Civil War documentary and the movie “Gettysburg” boosted interest in ...