A visit to a battle reenactment in rural Virginia revealed some surprising views about U.S. politics—and broad pessimism ...

Frances Clayton (pictured in uniform) claimed she'd fought in the Civil War, but historians are skeptical of her story. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Frances Clayton in women's clothing ...

In the Civil War South, joining the Confederate army was ... Universally, young white men in the Confederacy were anxious to don uniforms, drill in the streets, march to war, and claim adult ...

After the war, Sarah Edmonds doffed her uniform and resumed life as a woman ... She is excited to be sharing her love for the Civil War-era South with PBS.

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

The Wide Awakes were a series of clubs of mostly young men in their teens and early twenties, who organized parades ...

Hundreds of ex-combatants from the losing side of the Civil War fought against the Nazis while enlisted in the British army.

“The Civil War was so fascinating ... To fund the Union war effort, Congress borrowed heavily and created the nation’s first uniform paper currency. The resulting expansion of the monetary ...

South Carolina’s most famous ghost is something of an enigma. Unlike most tales of the undead, the Gray Man is known as a ...

The reelection of Donald Trump would mark the end of George Washington’s vision for the presidency—and the United States.

“This is a war against the people.” From their stronghold, Hemeti’s homeland of Darfur in the west and south-west of the ... s been a lot of wars and civil wars all over the world, but ...

And while the locations are always real places, with an emphasis on swaths of the American South - as his name suggests ...