A majority of U.S. citizens believe the country is on the path to a second civil war because of the polarizing nature of ...

In his latest project, Ken Burns turns his lens to the American Revolution — an event he has called the most significant ...

Four years of conflict between North and South reshaped the United States forever. In just one minute, this video highlights ...

With co-directors David Schmidt and Sarah Botstein, he tells America’s origin story in his new film, “ The American ...

The Confederacy’s theory of victory at the start of the Civil War was straightforward — so logical, the historian Emory M.

Rather than write a column for this Independence Day weekend edition of the newsletter, I decided to chat with Zaakir Tameez, a recent graduate of Yale Law School, about his new biography of Charles ...

The Confederate rifle was a revolutionary weapon in the American Civil War. Its design, range, and accuracy changed ...

The African American Civil War Museum in D.C. marked Juneteenth Thursday with a celebration to honor the estimated 6,000 Black soldiers who went to Galveston, Texas, 160 years ago to tell the last ...

At the start of the Civil War, Parker’s offer to enlist was rejected outright by another New Yorker, Secretary of State William H. Seward, who – according to historians – told the Seneca leader the ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Ely Samuel Parker, a Seneca leader and Civil War officer who served in President Ulysses S. Grant’s cabinet, was posthumously admitted Friday to the New York State Bar, an ...

In the 1840s, Parker was denied admission to the New York State bar, despite meeting all the requirements and training to ...