Cecily Zander, an assistant professor of history at the University of Wyoming, has earned the 2025 Center for Civil War Research’s Wiley-Silver Prize for the best first book in Civil War history. This ...

William Faulkner famously wrote, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." That could describe some of the recent historical discourse on the presidential campaign trail. First came Republican ...

This video explores the American Civil War through the lens of the Confederacy, revealing the motivations and anxieties that ...

The 1850s and 1860s in America saw the rise of the “sentimental domestic idea.” Women were held up as examples of purity, piety, and submissiveness. In the American antebellum period, precise and ...

You want to learn more about the Civil War, right? Of course you do. It is a significant part of U.S. history that continues to impact Americans today. From 1861 to 1865, bloody battles were waged ...

The Civil War (1861-1865) is America’s bloodiest war to date. It cost close to 1,100,000 casualties and claimed over 620,000 lives. These lesson plans are based on History Detectives episodes that ...

The bloodiest day in American history occurred 150 years ago, on Sept. 17, 1862, at the Battle of Antietam (Union name) or Sharpsburg (Confederate name). More Americans died on this single day than ...

Every nation has a story that is retold with the words – it was the darkest time in our history. For the United States, that time was the American Civil War. A conflict as much a battle for the soul ...

The smell of campfires and gunpowder were in the air at Burton Century Village Museum and Historical Education Center’s Civil War re-enactment. The encampment took place on May 24 at 14653 E. Park St.

On the occasion of the ACLU’s centennial, this essay collection explores many critical moments in the organization’s history. In 1917, war fever was sweeping the country. So was anti-dissent hysteria.