Brutal battles, outdated tactics, and groundbreaking weaponry collided in a war that would claim more American lives than any other. This episode breaks down the deadly mix of strategy, technology, ...

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The American Civil War left many lasting scars in the national psyche, which helps to explain why it has repeatedly proved to ...

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Hundreds of thousands of Americans North and South fought in the Civil War, including a Union drummer boy named Albert Woolson. He couldn’t have known it in 1864 when he enlisted at age 14, but at the ...

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Civil War. Alex Garland’s newest film Civil War picks up at the height of a modern-day civil war taking place in America. But much like Garland’s other hits ...

An African American Union soldier of the American Civil War, seated, in a studio portrait, circa 1863. Over a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson established Veterans Day to honor “the heroism of ...

In the years following the Civil War known as Reconstruction, newly-freed African American men could finally vote, and would be elected to represent ...

Wright, Isaac, and Digg Pridgen were three enslaved brothers who ran away from their captors and joined the Union Army in the ...

A highly acclaimed 1989 war epic starring Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman will no longer be part of Netflix’s library ...