On New Year’s Day 1863, the Confederacy managed to break the Union blockade choking its ports by capturing Galveston, Texas.

At the time the Civil War began in 1861, the United States government did not print paper money; it only minted coins. As a historian of the American Civil War, I study how the Confederate government ...

On July 4, the United States of America will celebrate its 250th anniversary. There’s also another major historical ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The Confederacy lacked the resources to produce a working helicopter. It’s the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863 and Union forces on Cemetery Ridge await ...

Relatively few people are aware that during the Civil War, Confederate leaders put forth a proposal to arm slaves to fight against the Union in exchange for their freedom. In his new book Confederate ...

When the Confederacy captured the Ironclad uss Indianola during the American Civil War, the Union's Rear Admiral David Dixon ...

President Joe Biden will award the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry on Wednesday to two Union soldiers who stole a locomotive deep in Confederate territory during the Civil War and drove it ...

United Daughters of the Confederacy had a pivotal role memorializing Confederate soldiers. This clip takes a look at The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the pivotal role that they played in ...

The nationwide push to take down symbols of the Confederacy, to question why anyone flies a rebel flag at all, has come to Gettysburg, a city of barely 1,100 on the South Dakota prairie, where the ...

A pro-Confederacy supporter appeared to suggest there would be a Civil War "victory" during a controversial rally celebrating the Confederate Memorial Day this past weekend in Georgia. Roughly 200 ...

The Civil War was the deadliest conflict ever fought on American soil with approximately 620,000 fatalities, according to History.com. Recent analysis could even suggest these numbers are higher than ...