Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser helped break ground on the future African American Civil War Memorial Museum housed at the Grimke School in an Oct. 17 ceremony. The museum tells the stories of ...

One of Washington's lesser-known museums is re-locating with the goal of attracting and educating more people. The African-American Civil War Museum pays tribute to the thousands of black Americans ...

RICHMOND — More than six years in the making, the American Civil War Museum officially opened to the public Saturday, drawing visitors from across the country with a message that the war affected ...

People exiting Washington, D.C.’s U Street – African American Civil War Memorial – Cardozo Metro stop were welcomed by dozens of people chanting names into microphones on a blustery November morning.

The Civil War tore the nation apart and in the process reshaped the contours of American life. Artists reacted to the war in myriad ways. The Civil War tore the nation apart and in the process ...

Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman lives on as a larger-than-life figure in the oft-told annals of American military history. The most intimate and unknown details of the man behind the legend are ...

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- In this edition of One Tank Trips, we're hitting the road to learn about an important chapter in American history. The National Civil War Museum is one of the ...

The National Civil War Museum, located at One Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is a permanent, nonprofit educational institution created to promote the preservation of ...

Reflecting on the catalyst for civil justice, Frank Smith Jr. credits Rosa Parks' strength for igniting the Civil Rights ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – One museum has among its vast Confederate-centric collection Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson’s sword and the flag that flew at Robert E. Lee’s headquarters. The other museum strives to ...

The American Civil War Museum has chosen three silhouetted faces as its new logo “to be symbolic of our main mission, which is to tell the stories of all of the people,” said S. Waite Rawls III, ...