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There remains a haunting stillness over the grounds around Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland, where 3,650 Union and Confederate soldiers per...

Public historians Diane Eickhoff and Aaron Barnhart recall how hundreds of women defied cultural norms of the time t...

In the keynote address for the Quindaro Symposium, held April 19-21 in Kansas City, Kansas, historian Quintard Taylor exp...

Was Abraham Lincoln the transcendent champion of African-American freedom that history books depict? Author Fred Kaplan tempers that...

African-Americans have served proudly in every great American war, including the Civil War, where their verve and valor led to the establishment of...

After four of the bloodiest years of warfare in its history, peace finally had come to the United States in May 1865. For two glorious days, Washingto...

By the time of Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, the land and people of western Missouri had suffered as much as any during the Civil War. T...

For Abraham Lincoln, the road to the future always began in the past – with the Founding Fathers, who inspired him to take up public life, showed him...

On the morning of May 3, 1863, on the cusp of one of the most remarkable tactical battlefield victories in American military history, Gen. Robert E...