You want to learn more about the Civil War, right? Of course you do. It is a significant part of U.S. history that continues to impact Americans today. From 1861 to 1865, bloody battles were waged ...
In June of 1861, a full month before Congress authorized the call for 500,000 men to join the war, President Abraham Lincoln spent an afternoon looking at a balloon. Aeronaut Thaddeus Lowe took to the ...
David Sayre founded the school to offer "an education of the widest range and highest order" for the women of Lexington.
She had, indeed, in a sense, three brothers in the Confederacy, but they were half-brothers, with whom she had had little to do, and anyway the Civil War was notoriously a great divider of the border ...
As reported in Variety, A24 has a new trailer for their new action film Civil War, and well, it’s a war! So there’s a President, who’s played by Nick Offerman, a great actor, calling for citizens to ...
In celebration of Women’s History Month, Redlands’ A.K. Smiley Public Library will offer a presentation by historian Ann Cordy Deegan on “Head to Toe and Skin Out: Women’s Dress Through Photography ...
Author Tonya Graham McQuade—whose family roots go deep in Missouri— will discuss Missouri’s interesting Civil War history and share excerpts from her book, "A State Divided: The Civil War Letters of ...