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).

A new collection of primary source documents, "The 1863 Stibbs Family Civil War Era Letters," is the third set of letters ...