Nov 24, 2009
Antietam Changes War's Scope: America's Bloodiest Day Leads to Emancipation
By: Walter Coffey
Nov 23, 2009
Quantrill's Men Held Reunions: The Survivors of the Civil War Guerrilla Band Met Until 1929
By: Mike Virgintino
Nov 20, 2009
See 1860s America at Pamplin Historical Park: Virginia Site is Home to National Museum of the Civil War Soldier
By: Mike Virgintino
Nov 19, 2009
Jedediah Hotchkiss: Stonewall Jackson’s Cartographer
By: Kristin Hanneman
Nov 16, 2009
Why the Confederacy Lost in 1865: Battlefield Victories Represent the Primary Cause of Southern Defeat
By: Michael Streich
Nov 15, 2009
Battle of Nashville Monument Survives: Peace Monument Honors Fallen Soldiers from North and South
By: Lyda Phillips
Nov 11, 2009
The Origin of Taps: From Lights Out Call to Funeral Tribute
By: Holly Beth Anderle
Nov 8, 2009
America's Civil War Today - November 2009: Preservation of Battlefield Land Continues
By: Mike Virgintino
Nov 5, 2009
Union General and Republican Carl Schurz: The German-American Leader and the Civil War
By: William L. Wunder
Nov 5, 2009
First Civil War Training Camp for Black Soldiers: Camp William Penn Near Philadelphia Trained 10,000 Union Soldiers
By: Linda N. Riggins
Nov 1, 2009
Civil War Battles – Ball's Bluff or Leesburg: Politics and Ambition Prevent Action in the Eastern Theater
By: Shri Desai
Oct 31, 2009
Civil War Battles – Wilson's Creek or Oak Hills: Union Efforts to Prevent Missouri From Seceding
By: Shri Desai
Oct 24, 2009
Comparing Slave and Serf Emancipations: Analyzing the Liberation of Slaves and Serfs Reveals Differances
By: Michael Streich
Oct 20, 2009
The Emancipation Proclamation: The Politics of Slavery and Unfulfilled Promises
By: Ron Goodwin
Oct 20, 2009
Forty Acres and a Mule: The Failed Promise of Equality
By: Ron Goodwin
Oct 20, 2009
The Reconstructing America: The Failure of a Social Experiment
By: Ron Goodwin
Oct 18, 2009
The Historic Election of 1860: The Republican Rise to Power Signals the End of the Union
By: Walter Coffey
Oct 10, 2009
Abraham Lincoln in the Illinois Legislature: The Young Legislator Pursues the Damaging Whig Economic Agenda
By: Walter Coffey
Oct 9, 2009
Confederate Spy Belle Boyd: Woman Who was One of the South's Top Operatives in the Civil War
By: Eric Niderost
Oct 6, 2009
Civil War Battles – First Manassas or Bull Run: Inexperienced Northern and Southern Men Clash for the First Time
By: Shri Desai
Oct 6, 2009
Bloody Bill Anderson - Raider and Guerrilla: From the Santa Fe Trail to the Civil War - Bill Anderson Was There
By: Janelle Gann-Austin
Oct 5, 2009
Defeat in Lexington Further Dampens Union Spirit: Federal Troops Outnumbered in Northwest Missouri Battle
By: Janelle Gann-Austin
Oct 2, 2009
World Navies Become Obsolete: The Battle of Ironclads in the Civil War Began a New Era in Warfare
By: Walter Coffey
Oct 2, 2009
America's Civil War Today - October 2009: Country is Getting Ready for 150th Anniversary
By: Mike Virgintino
Sep 29, 2009
Women Soldiers in the Civil War: Forbiden to Bear Arms, Many Women Served Posing as Men.
By: Eric Niderost
Sep 29, 2009
Union Defense Committee: New York City's Repsonse to the Civil War
By: william oneill
Sep 28, 2009
Historic Sites Vulnerable to Developers: College Protects, Investigates Johnson's Island Civil War Site
By: Dawn Goldsmith
Sep 27, 2009
Civil War Battles – Attack on Fort Sumter: The Official Start of Armed Hostilities Between North and South
By: Shri Desai
Sep 24, 2009
Mall of America's Gruesome History: Mall Complex Built on Site of Nation’s Largest Mass Execution
By: Estelle Rodis-Brown
Sep 23, 2009
Lincoln Visits New York: New Exhibit Shows the Tie Between Abe and the City
By: Mike Virgintino
Sep 23, 2009
America's Civil War Today - September 2009: New Coins, Lincoln Writings, Gettysburg and Liverpool Attractions
By: Mike Virgintino
Sep 21, 2009
Kate Warne, First Female Detective: The First Professional Woman Detective Also Guarded the President
By: Eric Niderost
Sep 20, 2009
Thaddeus S.C. Lowe, Aeronaut: Civil War Balloonist Flew for the Union
By: Eric Niderost
Sep 18, 2009
Elizabeth Van Lew, Southern Spy for the North: Virginia-born Woman, Loyal to the Union, Headed a Spy Network
By: Eric Niderost
Sep 18, 2009
Civil War Medicine: Soldiers Faced Disease as Well as Bullets
By: Eric Niderost
Sep 18, 2009
Alan Pinkerton, Civil War Spy: Scot Who Headed the First US Intelligence Agency
By: Eric Niderost
Sep 17, 2009
The Civil War Statue in The Bronx: A Lonely Soldier Now Stands Guard Before an 18th Century House
By: Mike Virgintino
Sep 15, 2009
The Civil War Began at the Battle of Black Jack: Battle of Black Jack First Skirmish in the War Between the States
By: Janelle Gann-Austin
Sep 15, 2009
Union Forces Routed at Bull Run: Confederates Win the Civil War's First Major Battle
By: Walter Coffey
Sep 12, 2009
Fort Sumter Prompts More Southern Secession: Lincoln's First Gamble Galvanizes the South
By: Walter Coffey
Sep 11, 2009
Major Robert Anderson: Hero of Fort Sumter
By: Eric Niderost
Sep 9, 2009
CSS Hunley: Confederate Submarine First to Sink a Ship in Combat
By: Eric Niderost
Sep 8, 2009
John Brown's Harpers Ferry Raid: Abolitionist Leader Tried to Start a Slave Rebellion in the South
By: Eric Niderost
Sep 8, 2009
Mary Todd Lincoln Biography: Abraham Lincoln's Wife Lived through Triumph and Tragedy
By: Eric Niderost
Sep 5, 2009
Abraham Lincoln on Race and Slavery: Lincolln's Attitude on Blacks Reflected in his Actions and Writings
By: Eric Niderost
Sep 5, 2009
The Dred Scott Outrage: A Supreme Court Decision That Divided the Nation
By: Walter Coffey
Sep 4, 2009
Frederick Douglass Biography: African American Abolitionist and Champion of Equal Rights
By: Eric Niderost
Aug 31, 2009
The Charge of the First Minnesota at Gettysburg: Sacrifice of Regiment Helped Save Union at Key U.S. Civil War Battle
By: Jon Matsune
Aug 29, 2009
Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion: A Virginia Uprising That Helped Divide America
By: Walter Coffey
Aug 28, 2009
Confederates in the U.S. Capitol: Statuary Hall Well Populated with Confederate Heroes
By: Gene Owens
Aug 25, 2009
Popular Sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska: How an Act of Congress Fueled Sectional Fire and Helped Lead to War
By: Walter Coffey
Aug 23, 2009
Slavery Becomes a National Issue: The Wilmot Proviso Exposes Sectional Animosity
By: Walter Coffey
Aug 21, 2009
The Courtenay Coal Torpedo: The Confederacy's Secret Civil War Weapon
By: Holly Anderson
Aug 21, 2009
William Tecumseh Sherman's Nervous Breakdown: The Anxiety and Depression of Cump in Kentucky and Missouri
By: William L. Wunder
Aug 21, 2009
Sex in the Civil War: Prostitution, Pornography, and Venereal Disease Common
By: Eric Niderost
Aug 18, 2009
A Drunk Ulysses S. Grant at Vicksburg: The General's Drinking Binge During the Siege of the City
By: William L. Wunder
Aug 14, 2009
Why The South Lost The Civil War: An Objective Review
By: Joel Hobson
Aug 14, 2009
A Compromise That Led to War: The Concessions of 1850 Further Divided North and South
By: Walter Coffey
Aug 11, 2009
New Orleans Captured by Admiral David Farragut: Closing the South's Most Important Port City in April 1862
By: Michael Streich
Aug 8, 2009
The Missouri Compromise Postpones Crisis: The First Major American Sectional Dispute is Diffused
By: Walter Coffey
Aug 7, 2009
Thomas Morris Chester, Black Civil War Reporter: First African American to Report for a Major Newspaper
By: Eric Niderost
Aug 7, 2009
Sesquicentennial of John Brown's Raid Approaches: Harpers Ferry, Nearby States Planning Observances of Historic Event
By: John Seidenberg
Aug 5, 2009
The Real Turning Point of the US Civil War: Ulysses Grant Takes Charge in the East
By: Jon Matsune
Aug 5, 2009
Dr. Alexander T. Augusta: Civil War Surgeon Was the First Black Commissioned Medical Officer
By: Eric Niderost
Aug 5, 2009
African Americans in the Civil War: Black Soldiers and Sailors Helped the Union Cause
By: Eric Niderost
Aug 4, 2009
Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, Civil War Surgeon: The First and Only Woman Medal of Honor Winner
By: Eric Niderost
Aug 3, 2009
Boston Corbett, Killer of John Wilkes Booth: Union Soldier Who Shot Lincoln Assassin
By: Eric Niderost
Aug 1, 2009
American Civil War Spy with Womanly Wiles: Charming Southern Belle Boyd
By: Alice Luckhardt
Jul 31, 2009
Abraham Lincoln's Heath and Medical History: Civil War President Faced Illness and Depression
By: Eric Niderost
Jul 30, 2009
Abraham Lincoln's Sexuality: Was Civil War President Gay?
By: Eric Niderost
Jul 30, 2009
James Longstreet and the Lost Cause: The Post-War Attacks on Robert E. Lee's Old War Horse
By: William L. Wunder
Jul 29, 2009
Nullification Threatens to Lead to Civil War: South Carolina Prompts a Sectional Crisis by Defying Federal Law
By: Walter Coffey
Jul 25, 2009
John Brown's Fateful Raid: How an Act of Terrorism Sparked America's Most Terrible War
By: Walter Coffey
Jul 5, 2009
Vicksburg and Gettysburg: Two Civil War Battles That Ensured Union Victory in July, 1863
By: Ashley Waggoner
Jun 16, 2009
The Life of Ulysses S Grant: The 18th President of the United States
By: Terry Long
Jun 16, 2009
Italians and the American Civil War: When Abraham Lincoln Offered Garibaldi a Command in the Union Army
By: Alessandro Mastrorocco
Jun 13, 2009
John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid: An Attempt to Ignite Mass Insurrection Among Virginia Slaves
By: Michael Streich
Jun 7, 2009
Civil War Bullet Collecting: Honoring the Past With a Hobby
By: Melissa Slate
Jun 3, 2009
Masons on Both Sides of Civil War: Fraternal Bond Transcended Enmity Between Blue and Gray
By: Gene Owens
Jun 2, 2009
The Missouri State Guard: Missouri's Pro-Southern Militia
By: Wade Ankesheiln
May 31, 2009
The Life of Andrew Johnson: The 17th President of the Unted States
By: Terry Long
May 16, 2009
Impact of the Civil War on Iroquois Women: Missionaries Pushed Customs of Whites Onto Thriving Society
By: Kelly Conrad
May 13, 2009
The Life of James Buchanan: The Bachelor President
By: Terry Long
May 13, 2009
The Equal Protection Clause: Section One of the 14th Amendment Guarantees Civil Liberties
By: Michael Streich
May 13, 2009
Slavery and the Civil War: The Role of Abraham Lincoln
By: Sara Wittenberg
May 12, 2009
Confederate Strategy: Plans for Defending the South in the Civil War
By: Wade Ankesheiln
May 12, 2009
Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag: Early Southern Banner Still Flies in Louisiana
By: Gene Owens
May 9, 2009
The Fall of Richmond April 1865: The Confederate Capital Captured After Petersburg
By: Michael Streich
May 8, 2009
Examining the Confederate Constitution: A rewrite of the U.S. Constitution from a Southern perspective
By: Gene Owens
May 7, 2009
The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution: Congress Abolishes Slavery and Legalizes Congressional Enforcement
By: Michael Streich
May 7, 2009
The Life of Franklin Pierce: The 14th President of the United States
By: Terry Long
May 6, 2009
The Presidential Election of 1864: Lincoln is Reelected After Spectacular Union Victories in the South
By: Michael Streich
May 6, 2009
The Wade-Davis Bill of July 1864: Congressional Attempts to Force an Iron Clad Oath of Allegiance
By: Michael Streich
May 5, 2009
Lincoln's Proclamation of Amnesty: Providing a Formula for Southern States to Reenter the Union
By: Michael Streich
May 5, 2009
Isabella Fogg Cared for Civil War Soldiers: Thousands Left Behind at Gettysburg and Other Battlefields
By: Rosemary E. Bachelor
May 4, 2009
Civil War Political Generals: Promoting Men Through Patronage Helped Serve a Purpose
By: Michael Streich
May 3, 2009
Lincoln's Proclamation of April 15, 1861: The President Called for Volunteers to Force Southern Compliance
By: Michael Streich
May 2, 2009
Capturing Gosport Naval Yard in 1861: Union Vacillation Resulted in a Tremendous Loss Early in the War
By: Michael Streich
May 2, 2009
Gen. Ricketts and Wife Suffered Civil War Horrors: Fanny Ricketts an American Battlefield and Prison Nurse
By: Rosemary E. Bachelor
May 1, 2009
President Lincoln's Generals: The Union Army Went Through Eight Generals Before Civil War Victory
By: Ashley Waggoner
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