John Brown first became a nationally known figure in 1856 through his actions in the Kansas Territory,...
Civil War
From the beginning of the war, Merrick was suspected of disloyalty. The American Civil War was not...
Not until sixteen months after Appomattox, on August 20, 1866, did the President formally declare an end...
His story represents the lives of many African American leaders who remain in the shadows of history...
Why did Americans fight each other with a ferocity unmatched in the Western world? The Civil War...
The federal government was able to spur innovation to meet the needs of the crisis. Introduction The...
The victory provided a renewed strength of the U.S. government and allowed shifting resources to fight external...
The Lincoln administration understood that it would be unwise to risk a possible armed conflict while already...
Examining the initial fractures, course, and ultimate resolution of the Civil War that divided the nation. Decade...
Taking a look at some of the key figures who played important roles during one of our...
Each state had to figure out how the men at the front would submit their votes. Some...
Lincoln was presiding over a bloody civil war with waning popularity. But he steadfastly rejected pleas to...
An unusually civil armistice in the most punishing conflict ever fought on American soil. One hundred and...
The loudest booms people had ever heard and the powerful stench of death on a staggering scale....
The Northern victory was short lived — Southern ideals spread quickly to the West. By Bill Moyers...
Raised in plantation privilege, Mary Boykin Chestnut was unprepared for the trauma of war and defeat. “February...
White southerners looked to contemporary European nationalist movements and compared the South to aspiring nations abroad. The...
A number of issues were involved in the Civil War, all inextricably bound to the institution of...
They created self-contained enclaves characterized by a southern Protestantism in sharp contrast to Mexican Catholicism. The defeat...
After winning the Civil War and living in the White House, he decided to see the world....
Slavery was abolished over 150 years ago in the United States, but the hard work of achieving...
The Civil War divided Americans into two kinds of people. David W. Blight tells an amazing story...
Whether we like it or not, John C. Calhoun is still very much with us today. Originally...
How did literature help make sense of the war and the profound changes it brought to the...
It was only midway through the war that Lincoln reached the conclusion that abolishing slavery would preserve...
How did images shape the meaning of the war for people at home and the meaning of...
Americans in the deepest sense went to war in 1861 to resolve the nature of the Union...
Robert Lee was the nation’s most notable traitor since Benedict Arnold. There’s a fabled moment from the...
Thousands of women volunteered as nurses during the Civil War. On April 14, 1861, Fort Sumter fell—the...
In the South, segregation reproduced the racial inequality found under slavery. By Angelina Grigoryeva and Martin Ruef...