Making The Civil War: 25 Years Later. Special | 28m 19s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Ken Burns, Ric Burns, Buddy Squires, and Allen Moore discuss the making of The Civil War.

Letter by General U.S. Grant (1862), American Civil War, facsimile Letter by General Ulysses S. Grant with the demand "unconditional surrender" to General Simon Bolivar Buckner during the Battle of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Washington native James Smallwood had had the old musket of another era for ...

The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

On a farm in Simpsonville, Kentucky, Jake Bryan starts each morning the same way his father, grandfather and ...

As the nation prepares to celebrate Juneteenth, the legacy of thousands of Black Civil War soldiers who trained in Montgomery ...

Burns uses contemporary cinematography in addition to thousands of archival photographs, paintings and newspaper images set to music to teach people about the Civil War. A number of well-known actors ...

The world of aviation is full of hidden symbolism, and pilots' uniforms are no exception. Here's what those stripes are all ...

The man dubbed Vice President JD Vance’s “philosopher king” is the UK chair of an organisation funded by a series of right-wing billionaires who have variously condemned democracy as “destructive”, ...

The Civil War began at 4:30 am on April 12, 1861 at Ft. Sumter, Charleston, SC. Confederate gunners fired on Ft. Sumter in Charleston, SC on April 12, 1861. Ft. Sumter fell 34 hours later.

Violeta Chamorro, Nicaraguan leader who helped end civil war, dies at 95. She called for national reconciliation and, in 1990, became her country’s first female head of state.

On Jan. 1, 1863, nearly two years into the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which ...