William Faulkner famously wrote, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." That could describe some of the recent historical discourse on the presidential campaign trail. First came Republican ...

The 1850s and 1860s in America saw the rise of the “sentimental domestic idea.” Women were held up as examples of purity, piety, and submissiveness. In the American antebellum period, precise and ...

Cecily Zander, an assistant professor of history at the University of Wyoming, has earned the 2025 Center for Civil War Research’s Wiley-Silver Prize for the best first book in Civil War history. This ...

You want to learn more about the Civil War, right? Of course you do. It is a significant part of U.S. history that continues to impact Americans today. From 1861 to 1865, bloody battles were waged ...

The bloodiest day in American history occurred 150 years ago, on Sept. 17, 1862, at the Battle of Antietam (Union name) or Sharpsburg (Confederate name). More Americans died on this single day than ...

As the final months of the American Civil War unfolded, we follow how a long-fractured nation moved from brutal fighting ...

GULFPORT, Miss., May 29 (Reuters Life!) - A regiment of black soldiers who fought in the South against slavery during the U.S. Civil War might have expected to have earned a place in history. Instead ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — As Republicans make their ...