to learn why so many people spend their weekends in Confederate uniforms reenacting the Civil War. How much, I wanted to know, does this hobby reflect a passion for history, and how much is it a ...

Pillow, Tennessee on April 12, 1864 100,000+ — Number of Civil War Union corpses found in the South through a federal reinterment program from 1866-1869 303,356 — Number of Union soldiers who ...

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

Mercy Street Episode 3: The Uniform ... a war record of which to be proud. Of the almost thirty thousand amputations recorded in the Union Army, the mortality rate was 26.3 percent. Were Civil ...

Gerald Goines, the mendacious former Houston narcotics officer who had a habit of framing drug suspects, received two ...

“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 ...

When Rowland was captured, some Black World War I veterans from Greenwood ... absolutely clear about why they left the union: Texas – “[A]ll white men are and of right ought to be entitled to equal ...

Things are going to look a bit strange this weekend for the first-ever September Civil War between the Oregon Ducks and Oregon State Beavers, but the visiting team is going to be showing up in style.

Twenty veterans, one whose remains have been unclaimed for nearly a century, were finally laid to rest in the Iowa Veterans ...

His latest film, The Damned, is not technically a documentary: It's set in 1862 at the height of the Civil War and follows ..

Taking place from Oct. 4–6, the Hartford City Civil War Days will feature reenactors who, for a few short days, live, fight, ...

“There’s been a lot of wars and civil wars all over ... led talks aimed at ending the war began in Geneva. Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Egypt, the African Union and the UAE are all involved.