4:1 — The ratio of people who attended church weekly to those who voted in the 1860 election 2.5 — Approximate percentage of the American population that died in the Civil War 7 million ...

Using the First Civil War analogy, American unity was achieved only after the South was vanquished and slavery abolished. How are those of us who oppose left-wing nihilism – there is no other ...

The American Civil War was arguably one of the most devastating conflicts in the history of the United States. Fought over slavery, it divided families and communities and, of course, the nation.

Yes, balloons. And bizarrely, it was tried and kind of worked. Back in the American Civil War, the American military founded its first aerial force, the Union Army Balloon Corps. Thank Union ...

We usually envision blue and gray armies battling it out east of Arizona when we think of the American Civil War, between the North and South way far away from the Grand Canyon and desert Southwest.

Editor's Note: Shauna Devine, Ph.D., is a historian of Civil War and American medicine. She has a Ph.D. in medical history and currently holds a joint appointment as a research fellow at the ...

The American Civil War Museum actually comprises three sites: The American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar and the White House of the Confederacy can both be found in Richmond, while the ...