Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...

William Harvey Carney, born in slavery, was the hero of the Battle of Battery Wagner, fought in South Carolina in 1863.

A Civil War museum in Frederick, Maryland, that used to have a Confederate flag on its logo ditched the controversial symbol in a new logo that was unveiled Wednesday. Click to toggle navigation menu.

We've all seen photographs of the Civil War: black-and-white images of bearded Union generals or mustachioed Confederate colonels posing to one side of the camera, dead bodies stacked on the ...

Professor Tracy McKenzie talked about the evolving Northern war aims, between unionism and emancipation, during the Civil War. He described how public support for emancipation correlated with ...

The cavalry officer dressed in Union blue certainly looked out of place as he laid a wreath before the Confederate Veterans Statue in Frederick's Mount Olivet Cemetery. The occasion was ...

From the D23 Expo in Anaheim, Calif., Marvel Studios has released a new official logo for Captain America: Civil War. The new logo is very similar to the first logo, which was released when the ...

David Chippie, a Black Civil War soldier who fought for the Union and later lived out his life in Riverhead, was honored with a rededication of his gravesite on Saturday ahead of the Juneteenth ...

Civil War re-enactors, veterans and others gathered at Ellsworth's cemetery obelisk for musket and cannon salutes commemorating the upcoming 150th anniversary of his death.

Coffee was an important part of a Union soldier’s ration during the Civil War. Each soldier was issued 36 pounds of coffee per year.

Union and Confederate Descendants Fulfill What War Could Not. May 15, 2002. By Linda Wheeler. Is The War over?

Panelists talked about the "Union Cause" view of the Civil war, which was the primary view among Northern soldiers and civilians, and its legacy in postwar American politics and culture. "The ...