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

Orange Park's Don Hillhouse, a "serious amateur" history researcher, scoured the National Archives for records of Union ...

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

Did you know that Confederate Missouri leaders actually moved to Shreveport and then Marshall, Texas, to establish the Confederate Capital of Missouri?

On the heels of the 161st anniversary of the day the H.L. Hunley and its crew sank, the North Charleston museum has newly ...

The Civil War ended in 1865, exactly 160 years ago. While the societal topic of race and the war’s deeply rooted issues still linger in the modern world in new ways, the bloodshed of battles that were ...

American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

The Battle of Olustee in Baker County is one of the largest yearly battle reenactments in the country. Find out about it here.

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, ...

The Cumberland Mountain Civil War Roundtable invites everyone to an evening of American Civil War History on Wednesday Feb. 12 at 6 p.m at Christ Lutheran Church, 481 Snead Drive ...

If there is one general that could be considered as having single-handedly lost the Civil War for the Confederates, it’s John ...