This lesson compares the experiences, roles, and legacies of Mary Todd Lincoln and Varina Davis, the wives of the Civil War era presidents. The lesson, which features historian Kelly Hancock speaking ...

The Carter House, a historic farm built in 1830 that landed at the center of the Battle of Franklin, is getting an $8.5 million makeover with a new visitor's center. A groundbreaking event will be ...

This cover image released by Knopf shows “Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War” by Michael Vorenberg ... thieves pull off biggest art heist in history Today in ...

The headline parade will take place in Dublin where the theme for this year’s event is adventures or “eachtraí” in Irish. The parade will feature seven large-scale pageants, six showpieces and 12 ...

The Defense Department efforts to purge DEI content from its website led to the deletion of a page about Black Civil War hero ...

Civil War hero Sgt. William Carney earned the Medal of Honor by carrying the American flag through fire at Fort Wagner, ...

The musicians of the Union and Confederate armies provided strong memories of the homes left behind for the battlefield. Astronomers Create First Realistic Virtual Universe (02:35) Rare Oarfish ...

The move from U.S. District Judge James Boasberg came just a few hours after the American Civil Liberties Union ... each time during an ongoing war: the War of 1812, World War 1, and World ...

“Lincoln’s Peace” offers a pair of fascinating what ifs. Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying army, could it have banished all the residual slavery ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Thousands of Syrians poured into the streets and public squares on Saturday to mark the 14th anniversary of the start of the country’s civil war for the first time since ...