This restored and colorized collection offers a sober and unfiltered glimpse into life during the American Civil War in the 1860s. The images document soldiers, civilians, battlefields, encampments, ...

A U.S. Postal Service dedication ceremony set for Saturday to celebrate a new series of Civil War stamps will feature a Pembroke man, who claims his family has ties to a famous photo from the 1863 ...

It has been nearly 160 years since Gen. Robert E. Lee signed the terms of surrender at a home in Appomattox, Virginia, effectively ending what we now call the Civil War. But for many in the South, the ...

PATRIOTIC GORE (816 pp.)—Edmund Wilson—Oxford ($8.50). Historians never seem to tire of running over the same Civil War battlegrounds. They have fought and refought the great campaigns, while often ...

NPR's Andrew Limbong talks to Amy Cooter of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies about how realistic an idea of a second civil war is. In the near future, the U.S. president has given ...

Giddy up: Horizon: An American Saga, out in theaters on June 28, is a new Western set in the Civil War-era by Kevin Costner, who directed, co-wrote, produced, and starred in the movie. Horizon: An ...