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View or download video on Vimeo. Join us as we go inside the impressive Hampton National Historic Site. This video was created in partnership with the...

View or download video on Vimeo. Join us as we go behind the scenes at Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine to check out some of the...

Dred Scott went to the U.S. Supreme Court to sue for his freedom. The Court ruled that Black people were “inferior beings” with no Constitutional...

Supplying almost three million soldiers with the food, clothes and resources they needed to fight the Civil War was no easy task. So which side proved...

It was the most destructive conflict in US history – but the American Civil War also saw the emergence of new technologies and innovations born from a...

The medical hospitals established during the American Civil War helped save thousands of lives – and change how the US military cares for troops to...

Women weren’t just spectators of the American Civil War – they played a vital role in the home, the workplace, the battlefield and beyond.

The American Civil War wasn’t just fought on land – it took place on rivers and seas too. But the contrast between Union and Confederate navies could...

Did you know that the U.S. Constitution's most important amendments took place over just 5 years? So what happened between 1865 and 1870 – and how did...

How did life change for enslaved people as the American Civil War raged around them?

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...

After the American Civil War, the American South attempted a rebrand. But would it accept the progressive social and political changes of the...