Making The Civil War: 25 Years Later. Special | 28m 19s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Ken Burns, Ric Burns, Buddy Squires, and Allen Moore discuss the making of The Civil War.

Letter by General U.S. Grant (1862), American Civil War, facsimile Letter by General Ulysses S. Grant with the demand "unconditional surrender" to General Simon Bolivar Buckner during the Battle of ...

Tubman's 1863 raid, which destroyed seven plantations along the Combahee River in South Carolina and freed 756 enslaved ...

Morgan's 1,000-mile raid into Indiana and Ohio was a costly mistake for the Confederate Army. His history in Lexington ...

Award-winning Civil War historian William Marvel looks at the seeming revival of Confederate military efforts in the first half of 1864, despite devastating reverses incurred during the previous year, ...

This simple dish towel was used as a flag of truce by Confederate troops during Gen. Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, and is now on display at the ...

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Another series of unmarked graves — this one containing 14 individuals from Greece’s civil war era — have been dug up in a park in a suburb near the northern Greek city of ...

BREMEN, Ga. — Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, never straying far from their copies of “The Sacred ...

The event will also feature battle re-enactments at 1 p.m., both days. “The draw of living history is that most people, when they do living history, they study what they are talking about.

They quickly surmised the bones were actually from the Civil War, when a makeshift hospital operated nearby and treated gravely wounded Confederate soldiers. The archaeologists work at the Colonial ...

The Civil War is returning to Old Bedford Village this weekend, June 7-8, with a full schedule of activities, reenactments, and displays to bring history to life for the whole family. The event will ...

Whether the debate is occasioned by a polemical book or a movie like last year’s “Civil War,” I consistently take the negative on the question of whether the United States is headed for a ...