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...
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...
Reconstruction was one of the most tumultuous periods in U.S. history. After four years of Civil War, not everyone agreed on the best way forward. The...
Military leaders didn’t just rely on carrier pigeons and messengers on horseback to share information during the American Civil War – they texted each...