Stones River National Battlefield preserves the site of a pivotal Civil War clash that shaped the Union’s control of Middle ...

Historians say that Sarah Emma Edmonds exaggerated many aspects of her wartime experiences. Still, she bravely served in the Union Army, becoming one of hundreds of women who fought in the conflict in ...

A new museum in the works will tell the story of the Civil War from the home front in North Carolina. It’s geared toward students, and recently social studies teachers in eastern North Carolina met ...

The small town of Gettysburg is one of the most well-known historical sites in the entire state of Pennsylvania.

Annie’s public efforts made the invisible labor of so many women visible on a massive scale during a critical time in Iowa ...

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 ...

Black historical interpreters are using reenactments and storytelling to center the Black figures that history books often leave behind. There ...

This past August Army Private Sandy Wills was buried with full military honors at a veterans' cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee. Private Wills served his country, though not in this century, or the last.

A 1938 Southeast Missourian article recalls Cape Girardeau County's once-busy Civil War veterans' posts, the few surviving ...

Florida was the third state to secede from the Union during the Civil War. Around 15,000 Floridians fought in the Civil War, representing the highest percentage of any Confederate state. Florida faced ...