Reenactors and presenters brought visitors back to the early 1860s for Century Village Museum’s 41st annual Civil War Living History Weekend. Union and Confederate soldiers encamped and mingled with ...

The Economist watched with alarm as America descended into civil war in 1861. That April militiamen from South Carolina, which had seceded, bombarded Fort Sumter, a Union stronghold just off the state ...

The negative public reaction to Operation Metro Surge – the violent immigration dragnet in Minnesota – was “MAGA’s Gettysburg,” wrote New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie on Jan. 28. Bouie, of ...

160 years is a long time, but that's how long it took to get to today for a memorial to be given to the men of Company K.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Some Civil War historians see echoes of the past in recent political violence and growing disillusionment with the ...

In the spring of 1861, the United States stood at its breaking point. For years, tensions between North and South had ...

The answer is no. These Critical Questions use core findings from the academic literature on civil wars and political violence to situate recent tragic events and fundamentally challenge the notion ...