I initially missed Civil War when it was in theaters, and truthfully, I wasn't sure if I even wanted to watch it. The United ...

Residents protesting Confederate statues on public land square off with neighbors refusing to surrender local landmarks.

Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee -- severed their ties with the Union.

The Civil War was a military, cultural, political, and economic milestone in American history. For four years the nation was in a bloody divide that extended from the East Coast to the pioneer West ...

The Civil War, an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and produced in conjunction with WETA, Washington, D.C., first aired in September of 1990 to an ...

A look at the people and events that shaped the Civil War and Reconstruction. Discover the people and events that document the American story — Saturdays on C-SPAN2. Come along with American ...

A look at the people and events that shaped the Civil War and Reconstruction. Covering American History C-SPAN style: with event coverage, eyewitness accounts, and discussions with authors ...

Civil war expert Barbara F. Walter explains the two factors that are predictive of political instability and violence: anocracy (or partial democracy) and identity-based parties. Sorry ...

After the American Civil War, many southern states retained racist rules and systems. The 1896 Supreme Court ruling allowing segregation was not successfully challenged until 1954. The fight for ...

Explore some of the Civil War’s bloodiest days during a program hosted by Mentor Public Library at 10 a.m. Oct. 8 at the ...

Yet many Americans at the outset of the Civil War just didn't share that same kind of national sentiment. In his latest book, "'Tis Not Our War: Avoiding Military Service in the Civil War North ...

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