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Americans are familiar with Civil War land battles—but much less so with the war at sea, from the development of ironclad warships and submar...

Despite a Union advantage in men and resources, the Confederates dominated in the early months of the Civil War. Only one federal general seemed to ha...

A panel of military historians from the United States Army’s Command and General Staff College discusses Lincoln’s leadership tr...

Jennifer Weber, an assistant professor of history at the University of Kansas, discusses her new book Copperheads: T...

On Friday, May 1, at 7 p.m. at the Plaza Branch, 4801 Main St., local author Andrea Wa...

Historian Jim Denny examines the Battle of Island Mound, the first Civil War battle in which African-American soldiers engaged in...

The Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862 is the bloodiest day in American military history. Now, exactly 150 years later, a panel of historians...

Historian Terry Beckenbaugh maintains that the Civil War was inevitable given the failure of the nation’s political leadership to...

Michael Fellman, a preeminent scholar of the American Civil War and an expert on the guerilla warfare that characterized the conflict...

Meet the Past features Library Director Crosby Kemper III interviewing prominent historical figures (as portrayed by a...