It was only midway through the war that Lincoln reached the conclusion that abolishing slavery would preserve...
Civil War
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...
While the Southern army dwindled, the Union simply mustered new armies and tried again. By Tina Ulrich,...
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...
Were the Copperheads traitors or merely exercising the right to criticize the government? To what extent did...
It was one of the most important Southern cities in the war and the only major Virginian...
In the first year of the Civil War, Union General Benjamin Butler used the term “contraband of...
On the motives of a reluctant memoirist. In late 1884, after delivering an evening lecture at Chickering...
Fully one in four Union fighters was foreign-born. In the summer of 1861, an American diplomat in...
Many questions linger regarding the process and motivations of Lincoln’s burial in Springfield. By Dr. Jeremy PrichardHistorian,...
The United States Colored Troops (USCT) was a branch of the United States Army founded in 1863....
The Harriet Lane engaging in a battery at Pig’s Point By Sara Hale My Grandfather’s account of...
Elizabeth Van Lew was a Richmond, Virginia abolitionist and philanthropist who built and operated an extensive spy...
Alena Kuzmina/Shutterstock.com Christmas tends to assume a strong sense of its own significance in times of protracted conflict....
A One Hundred Dollar Confederate States of America banknote dated December 22, 1862. Issued during the American...
The Hunley submarine / Wikimedia Commons War makes governments willing to try nearly anything, no matter how...
Looking at at a group of white slaveholders who adopted Southeast Indian boys (Choctaw, Creek, and Chickasaw) into...
She took the international abolitionist stage during the Civil War. By Adam McNeil / 07.13.2018 PhD Student in Black...
Wedding photograph of Jefferson Davis and Varina Howell, 1845 / New York Public Library By Kimberly J. Largent...
American Civil War Museum By Kimberly J. Largent Editor Charge the Cannons Publishing Growing Up at Arlington Mary...
He was accused of treason. Only the hunger for reconciliation saved him. By John Reeves / 06.24.2018...
Freedmen voting in New Orleans, 1867 / Library of Congress By Dr. Allen Carl Guelzo / 02.04.2018...
The Confederates marched on Gettysburg on account of their need for … shoes. By Dr. Catherine...
A group of Mosby’s Rangers (Mosby center) By Robert Naranjo In the pre-dawn hours of August 13,...
General Ulysses S. Grant / Library of Congress By Scott Laidig Senior Fellow Potomac Institute for Policy...
By Kimberly J. Largent Editor Charge the Cannons Publishing The Early Years Mary Todd Lincoln, the most criticized...
Anderson Prison (Camp Sumter) / Wikimedia Commons By Jerry Staub INTRODUCTION General William Tecumseh Sherman as a...