A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist Churches in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document ...

Originally issued by Lincoln during the Civil War in 1863, the proclamation declared enslaved people in the Confederate ...

Thousands of volunteers work to decode handwritten records from America's past. The National Archives program includes Revolutionary War pension files and Civil War documents.

The American Civil War Museum in Appomattox, Virginia hosted this program. Description. This lesson focuses on the first use of landmines in North America, during the American Civil War (1861-65).

From James McPherson’s definitive history to Tony Horwitz’s adventures among obsessives, here are the 11 best books on the Civil War in time for the 150th anniversary.

The families of American Civil War veterans offer new evidence of ... UCLA economic historian Dora L. Costa inherited stewardship of a trove of Civil War service documents in 2013 after the ...