The Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was a Civil War-era death camp. After the Civil War millions of freed Black ...

Slavery caused the Civil War — that is the bold, and factual, statement that opens the American Civil War Museum's latest exhibition, "The Impending Crisis: How Slavery Caused the Civil War." ...

Richard Kreitner's "Fear No Pharoah" gives an honest account of how Jews resisted, ignored and even championed American ...

Researchers have begun to examine the hidden or repressed queer identities within a movement that was overtly hostile to the ...

In the South, most slaves did not hear of the proclamation for months. But the purpose of the Civil War had now changed. The North was not only fighting to preserve the Union, it was fighting to ...

One researcher argues a general's 200-year-old Kentucky will, and others like it, support the case for present-day ...

When the American research university eventually took shape in the decades after the Civil War, slavery was an important subject of research almost from the start. In the fall of 1883, a German ...

Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second ...

ExploreHe escaped slavery to fight for the Union — and then he was captured The Civil War continues to echo in political debates today. In recent weeks, the Trump administration has drawn praise ...

“To speak as the slave would, to say that we are as happy for the Civil War as most Americans are for the Revolutionary War, is to rupture the narrative.” ...

It had been listed in a record of 7,200 silent films classified as "lost" Sonja Anderson During the Civil War, Confederates ... kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the conflict ended ...