As anger about the presence of ICE in Minneapolis divided the nation, Americans turned to the American Civil War for metaphors.

Critics say the U.S. Justice Department under Attorney General Pam Bondi would be unrecognizable to its Reconstruction-era founders and to many who served in the present day. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via ...

Both the Union and the Confederacy believed God was on their side, using faith to justify their respective causes. Tyler Rice of Columbus, Ohio is a freelance historian specializing in religion and ...

The first shot of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War was fired by a man from DuPage County. Lt. Marcellus E. Jones of the 8th Illinois Calvary was on patrol outside Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, ...

NMAHMAI copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. The Civil War is remembered as a war of brother against brother, with women standing innocently on the sidelines. But battlefield ...

Many Americans carry misconceptions about the Civil War and slavery, shaping their understanding of history and its ongoing impact. Myths about why the war was fought, who fought it, and the realities ...

Lead from a Wythe County mine, salt from Saltville and the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad had “extraordinary significance” in the Civil War, according to a study by Robert C. Whisonant, geology ...

More than a century before streaming platforms and superhero cinematic universes, American filmmakers were already chasing scale, spectacle, the war film and national history. One of the boldest ...