American Civil War

Leaves of Grass is Walt Whitman’s glorious poetry collection, first published in 1855, which he revised and expanded throughout his lifetime. It wa...

The USS Saginaw was a Civil War gunboat that served in Pacific and Asian waters between 1860 and 1870. During this decade, the crew witnessed the t...

Thousands of Black sailors served with valor during the Civil War. Yet few histories have highlighted their contributions to the Union's impress...

The War Criminal’s Son brings to life hidden aspects of the Civil War through the sweeping saga of the firstborn son in the infamous Confederate Wi...

When Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state, what state was admitted as a free state? President James Buchanan and one member of his c...

Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson was the embodiment of Southern contradictions. He was a slave owner who fought and died, at least in part, to p...

Before the Civil War, America had undergone a technological revolution that made large-scale industry possible, yet, except for the expanding reach...

From October 1864 to November 1865, the officers of the CSS Shenandoah carried the Confederacy and the conflict of the Civil War around the globe t...

The service of African-American soldiers during the Civil War is one of that conflict’s most stirring, if still not completely understood, aspects....

The story of the American Civil War is typically told with particular interest in the national players behind the war: Davis, Lincoln, Lee, Grant, ...