On the last day of summer, in central Virginia, a battalion of Confederate soldiers marches in orderly ranks onto the field ...

How the most divided period in the history of U.S. democracy – the mid-1800s – coincided with a sudden boom in new ...

After the war, Sarah Edmonds doffed her uniform ... African-American Studies and has received several awards for teaching and research. She is excited to be sharing her love for the Civil War ...

Editor's Note: Dr. Shauna Devine is a historian of Civil War and American medicine ... Mercy Street Episode 3: The Uniform opens with Dr. Summers informing Dr. Foster that he has passed ...

Photographer Drew Gardner has a passion for history. His long-term project, “The Descendants,” (  wherein he recreates famous portraits of historical figures featuring their direct offspring, is his ...

The American revolutionaries feared a powerful executive ... as Ron Chernow noted, until the Civil War. In September 1794, ...

The flag, which incorporates Confederate symbols, was selected in 1952 by a committee that included Marie Bankhead Owen, a ...

“The Civil War was so fascinating ... deal with the vast territories the U.S. had amassed during the Mexican American War: California entered the Union as a free state, but the citizens of ...

It’s the standard-issue uniform for journos these days ... especially in the context of a modern American civil war, may be ...

I walked into Civil War (now streaming on Max ... ordered attacks on American citizens and ordered journalists at the Capitol to be shot on sight. Do the math. It’s not hard.

The American Civil War ended in the 1860s ... The gray from the flag is a reference to the uniforms of Confederate soldiers. The red is for Alabama. The blue was to represent unity, as Union ...