The Kings and Generals animated documentary series launches its new chapter on the American Civil War with an in-depth look ...

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

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.

A look at the people and events that shaped the Civil War and Reconstruction. Discover the people and events that document the American story — Saturdays on C-SPAN2. Come along with American ...

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

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).

But as a historian and professor who studies slavery, Southern history and the American Civil War, I know there’s really only one correct answer: slavery. Enslaved people and soldiers on a South ...