Daniel Walterhouse, forgotten until now, served his country ‘in a unique way,’ spent time in Confederate prison camp.

The Outlaw Josey Wales is a 1976 movie from Clint Eastwood that tackles the American Civil War. The movie follows Josey Wales ...

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States ... purpose of the Civil War had now changed. The North was not only fighting to preserve the Union, it was ...

takes Spalding’s letter and uses it to help throw light on American life, civil and military, in the era of the Civil War; in effect ... while his analysis of a bit of gallows humor and the young ...

Editor's Note: Shauna Devine, Ph.D., is a historian of Civil War and American medicine ... “Medical Directors will require of all medical officers under their direction a strict compliance ...

The USS Antietam was recognized for its more than 37 years of naval service during a decommissioning ceremony in Hawaii.

The ACLU has successfully defended civil liberties since its founding in ... by the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause. Stripping an American of his citizenship for being a deserter in World War II ...

An innovative, wide-ranging, thought-provoking account of class struggle in the US since the Civil War, Jon Jeter’s latest ... scores of white Union soldiers turned their bayonets, knives ...

It was in this climate that Crystal Eastman and Roger Baldwin created the Civil Liberties Bureau as part of the American Union Against Militarism. Three years later, in 1920, that small committee ...

(Library of Congress) About 57,000 books have been published on the American Civil War so what possibly could ... The 11th Connecticut lost the commanding officer, Col. Henry Kingsbury (mortally ...

Members of the Grays and Blues pose in front of the monument Canada has unveiled its first monument to the US Civil War, honouring the ... Canadians fought for the Union army, many were ...

Andrew Marr describes how the American ... both the Civil War and the eventual abolition of slavery. It could be used to help explain the contrasting views of the Union and the Confederacy on ...