It cost the equivalent of billions of dollars in today’s money, and left the US government crippled with debt. But how, exactly, did America pay for...
No two Americans had the same experience of the Civil War – and everyone remembers it differently. Through the stories they told – and the artifacts...
He’s revered as the greatest Confederate general of them all, the personification of Southern loyalty, tradition and military strength. But there’s a...
After the United States won the War of 1812, Americans wanted to develop a domestic economy. Domestic manufacturing and improved transportation would...
For those enslaved, it was the perpetrator of countless horrors. So why did almost 200,000 African-Americans put their lives on the line to preserve...