The History Channel’s Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise, a collaboration with Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground ...

A pivotal change occurred in 1971 when Congress moved Memorial Day from a fixed May 30 to the last Monday of May, creating a ...

Information on the Civil War is well-known, but what about some of the factors that led to its start? This week, we examine ...

In 1861, a long-growing tension in the United States finally reached a breaking point. It wasn’t a sudden explosion of violence; historical records show that the country had been moving toward this ...

The display will be open to the public at Spurlock Museum through Nov. 8. Presented artifacts are drawn from over 30 collaborators across campus and other universities. While the vast majority of the ...

He was visiting his great-grandfather’s grave at the Old Greencastle Cemetery in Dayton a few years ago when he noticed a group of people mowing the grounds and trimming the ...

In the years following the Civil War known as Reconstruction, newly-freed African American men could finally vote, and would be elected to represent ...

The 3rd Maine Infantry is Maine's largest American Civil War reenactment group.

By the side of the road in a small town in Southern Maryland is an easy-to-miss historical marker. But the story of Camp Stanton is not to be missed.

Visitors stand on the same ground where one of the most significant chapters of American history unfolded. Mississippi has a ...

A bronze, 6-foot-tall statue commemorating all of Arkansas' African American troops who served during the Civil War was ...