Wilderness Battlefield has so many lessons left to teach us. But those lessons are about war, loss, and reconciliation, not ...

Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...

From the beep of our metal detectors to the moment we unearth our finds, each episode brings you along on a treasure hunt like no other. We meticulously comb through forgotten battlegrounds, ...

Rosencrans and the Union troops were led to the summit by a young man, 22-year-old David Hart, whose father owned the farm ...

Despite being little more than the answer to trivia questions today, Vaughn Meader was a pioneer who paved the way for ...

If you prefer your nights ghost-free (party pooper), the Gettysburg Hotel offers a more traditional – but no less historic – ...

The Sudanese Armed Forces have recently seized the initiative in the battle for Khartoum, but an end to one of the world’s ...

One can hardly imagine what the night of Feb. 17, 1865, must have been like in Charleston. Hours before surrendering to Union ...

"It certainly seems as though it could stem back to 1624, which is 20 years before the great Battle of Nantwich," he said. He ...

The little-known Civil War Battle of Greenleaf Prairie took place on June 16, 1863, near present-day Braggs and extended to ...

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

Fifty-five years of living in the Southeast during which we enjoyed lots of travel resulted in visiting most of the National Park Service's many Civil War sites. Each proved enjoyable and educational, ...