Antietam Changes War's Scope: America's Bloodiest Day Leads to Emancipation
By: Walter Coffey
Quantrill's Men Held Reunions: The Survivors of the Civil War Guerrilla Band Met Until 1929
By: Mike Virgintino
By: Mike Virgintino
Jedediah Hotchkiss: Stonewall Jackson’s Cartographer
By: Kristin Hanneman
By: 
Michael Streich
Battle of Nashville Monument Survives: Peace Monument Honors Fallen Soldiers from North and South
By: Lyda Phillips
The Origin of Taps: From Lights Out Call to Funeral Tribute
America's Civil War Today - November 2009: Preservation of Battlefield Land Continues
By: Mike Virgintino
Union General and Republican Carl Schurz: The German-American Leader and the Civil War
By: Linda N. Riggins
By: Shri Desai
Civil War Battles – Wilson's Creek or Oak Hills: Union Efforts to Prevent Missouri From Seceding
By: Shri Desai
By: Michael Streich
The Emancipation Proclamation: The Politics of Slavery and Unfulfilled Promises
By: Ron Goodwin
Forty Acres and a Mule: The Failed Promise of Equality
By: Ron Goodwin
The Reconstructing America: The Failure of a Social Experiment
By: Ron Goodwin
The Historic Election of 1860: The Republican Rise to Power Signals the End of the Union
By: Walter Coffey
By: Walter Coffey
Confederate Spy Belle Boyd: Woman Who was One of the South's Top Operatives in the Civil War
By: Eric Niderost
By: Shri Desai
World Navies Become Obsolete: The Battle of Ironclads in the Civil War Began a New Era in Warfare
By: Walter Coffey
America's Civil War Today - October 2009: Country is Getting Ready for 150th Anniversary
By: Mike Virgintino
Women Soldiers in the Civil War: Forbiden to Bear Arms, Many Women Served Posing as Men.
By: Eric Niderost
Union Defense Committee: New York City's Repsonse to the Civil War
By: william oneill
By: Dawn Goldsmith
By: Shri Desai
Mall of America's Gruesome History: Mall Complex Built on Site of Nation’s Largest Mass Execution
Lincoln Visits New York: New Exhibit Shows the Tie Between Abe and the City
By: Mike Virgintino
By: Mike Virgintino
By: Eric Niderost
Thaddeus S.C. Lowe, Aeronaut: Civil War Balloonist Flew for the Union
By: Eric Niderost
By: Eric Niderost
Civil War Medicine: Soldiers Faced Disease as Well as Bullets
By: Eric Niderost
Alan Pinkerton, Civil War Spy: Scot Who Headed the First US Intelligence Agency
By: Eric Niderost
The Civil War Statue in The Bronx: A Lonely Soldier Now Stands Guard Before an 18th Century House
By: Mike Virgintino
Union Forces Routed at Bull Run: Confederates Win the Civil War's First Major Battle
By: Walter Coffey
Fort Sumter Prompts More Southern Secession: Lincoln's First Gamble Galvanizes the South
By: Walter Coffey
Major Robert Anderson: Hero of Fort Sumter
By: Eric Niderost
CSS Hunley: Confederate Submarine First to Sink a Ship in Combat
By: Eric Niderost
John Brown's Harpers Ferry Raid: Abolitionist Leader Tried to Start a Slave Rebellion in the South
By: Eric Niderost
Mary Todd Lincoln Biography: Abraham Lincoln's Wife Lived through Triumph and Tragedy
By: Eric Niderost
By: Eric Niderost
The Dred Scott Outrage: A Supreme Court Decision That Divided the Nation
By: Walter Coffey
Frederick Douglass Biography: African American Abolitionist and Champion of Equal Rights
By: Eric Niderost
By: Jon Matsune
Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion: A Virginia Uprising That Helped Divide America
By: Walter Coffey
Confederates in the U.S. Capitol: Statuary Hall Well Populated with Confederate Heroes
By: Gene Owens
By: Walter Coffey
Slavery Becomes a National Issue: The Wilmot Proviso Exposes Sectional Animosity
By: Walter Coffey
The Courtenay Coal Torpedo: The Confederacy's Secret Civil War Weapon
By: Holly Anderson
Sex in the Civil War: Prostitution, Pornography, and Venereal Disease Common
By: Eric Niderost
A Drunk Ulysses S. Grant at Vicksburg: The General's Drinking Binge During the Siege of the City
Why The South Lost The Civil War: An Objective Review
By: Joel Hobson
A Compromise That Led to War: The Concessions of 1850 Further Divided North and South
By: Walter Coffey
By: Michael Streich
The Missouri Compromise Postpones Crisis: The First Major American Sectional Dispute is Diffused
By: Walter Coffey
By: Eric Niderost
By: John Seidenberg
The Real Turning Point of the US Civil War: Ulysses Grant Takes Charge in the East
By: Jon Matsune
Dr. Alexander T. Augusta: Civil War Surgeon Was the First Black Commissioned Medical Officer
By: Eric Niderost
African Americans in the Civil War: Black Soldiers and Sailors Helped the Union Cause
By: Eric Niderost
Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, Civil War Surgeon: The First and Only Woman Medal of Honor Winner
By: Eric Niderost
Boston Corbett, Killer of John Wilkes Booth: Union Soldier Who Shot Lincoln Assassin
By: Eric Niderost
American Civil War Spy with Womanly Wiles: Charming Southern Belle Boyd
By: Alice Luckhardt
Abraham Lincoln's Heath and Medical History: Civil War President Faced Illness and Depression
By: Eric Niderost
Abraham Lincoln's Sexuality: Was Civil War President Gay?
By: Eric Niderost
James Longstreet and the Lost Cause: The Post-War Attacks on Robert E. Lee's Old War Horse
By: Walter Coffey
John Brown's Fateful Raid: How an Act of Terrorism Sparked America's Most Terrible War
By: Walter Coffey
Vicksburg and Gettysburg: Two Civil War Battles That Ensured Union Victory in July, 1863
By: Ashley Waggoner
The Life of Ulysses S Grant: The 18th President of the United States
By: Terry Long
John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid: An Attempt to Ignite Mass Insurrection Among Virginia Slaves
By: Michael Streich
Civil War Bullet Collecting: Honoring the Past With a Hobby
By: Melissa Slate
Masons on Both Sides of Civil War: Fraternal Bond Transcended Enmity Between Blue and Gray
By: Gene Owens
The Missouri State Guard: Missouri's Pro-Southern Militia
By: Wade Ankesheiln
The Life of Andrew Johnson: The 17th President of the Unted States
By: Terry Long
By: Kelly Conrad
The Life of James Buchanan: The Bachelor President
By: Terry Long
The Equal Protection Clause: Section One of the 14th Amendment Guarantees Civil Liberties
By: Michael Streich
Slavery and the Civil War: The Role of Abraham Lincoln
By: Sara Wittenberg
Confederate Strategy: Plans for Defending the South in the Civil War
By: Wade Ankesheiln
Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag: Early Southern Banner Still Flies in Louisiana
By: Gene Owens
The Fall of Richmond April 1865: The Confederate Capital Captured After Petersburg
By: Michael Streich
By: Gene Owens
By: Michael Streich
The Life of Franklin Pierce: The 14th President of the United States
By: Terry Long
By: Michael Streich
The Wade-Davis Bill of July 1864: Congressional Attempts to Force an Iron Clad Oath of Allegiance
By: Michael Streich
Lincoln's Proclamation of Amnesty: Providing a Formula for Southern States to Reenter the Union
By: Michael Streich
Civil War Political Generals: Promoting Men Through Patronage Helped Serve a Purpose
By: Michael Streich
By: Michael Streich
By: Michael Streich
President Lincoln's Generals: The Union Army Went Through Eight Generals Before Civil War Victory
By: Ashley Waggoner
