We are starting a new Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the history of the American Civil War. In ...

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In an excerpt from her forthcoming book, ‘The Last American Road Trip,’ Sarah ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

While most remember the land battles of the American Civil War, the conflict at sea played a crucial role. In this animated ...

Sgt. William Carney, whose Civil War heroism was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie "Glory," will get his own comic ...

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of George D. Pratt. The Smithsonian Institution came of age in the era of Manif ...

War becomes an untouchable thing and the heroism of war becomes something sacred.” “The Damned” also has a timeliness to it amid the current American ... for the Civil War, how that time ...

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 19, 1775, British troops faced off against colonial militias in the Massachusetts ...

New York City Jewish teachers expressed alarm and outrage after receiving an anti-Israel screed from a Jew-bashing labor ...

The 1990 miniseries details the American Civil War from beginning to end, and dives into the lives of historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln and General Stonewall Jackson. Baldwin said that ...

“The Underground Railroad — the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War — refers ... expressions of the American civil rights movement.” ...