Today was day two of the annual “Spring Civil War Encampment” at the Fort Scott National Historic Site. The public was ...

Literacy rates were high on both sides during the Civil War—about 90 percent for Union ... of the most disgusting sights I ever saw in my life,” he wrote. “Women going through the streets ...

After the Civil War, Arkansas veterans returned home and attempted to revert to civilian life. During the immediate postwar ...

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

during Sudan's civil war, which began exactly two years ago. The 21-year-old recorded how her family's life was turned upside down by her mother's death, on one of several phones the BBC World ...

On my periodic trips to Atlanta, I often stop at one of my favorite bookstores, A Capella Books near Inman Park. During my ...

Historians describe the debate over extending civil rights ... are also during the early Reconstruction years responding to events. For example, in 1866, only a year after the war had ended ...

Construction work near one of Greece's most notorious prisons in Thessaloniki has unearthed the remains of dozens of people executed during the Greek Civil War era, relatives and officials said ...