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 ...

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 ...