A new collection of primary source documents, "The 1863 Stibbs Family Civil War Era Letters," is the third set of letters ...

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

What was life like behind the front lines of the Civil War? An educational and engaging event will answer that question July 12 at the Heritage Village of the Southern Finger Lakes.

Midway Village Museum took the community back to the 1800s for a live re-enactment of what life was like during the Civil War ...

Midway Village Museum used its "Living History Weekend" to show visitors what life was like during the Civil War.

New research is shedding light on a 40-acre military camp for Black soldiers that fanned out from the southeast corner of ...

Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...

Fred Minus brought Civil War history to life at Hopewell Valley Central High School, highlighting the experiences of Black soldiers who fought for the Union Army.

Activist Tommy Garnett's decades of work paid off when Sierra Leone's Tiwai island -- a lush forest home to one of the ...

The ability of the media to portray brutal repression of the Southern African Americans, and in parallel, speeches by Civil ...

The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

Navy Chief Watertender Oscar Verner Peterson died while performing damage control on his ship during the Battle of the Coral ...