Editor's Note: Shauna Devine, Ph.D., is a historian of Civil War and American medicine. She has a Ph.D. in medical history and currently holds a joint appointment as a research fellow at the ...

Thanks to its comprehensive collection of Confederate artifacts, weapons and art, this museum is a required stop for Civil War buffs. American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar The Historic ...

At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were ... With Lincoln’s election, the British took a keen interest in American affairs, and after the war started, debate over whether to recognize ...

Courtesy: Library of Congress Whitman was forty-two years old when the Civil War started ... he found that purpose and a new inspiration for his art.

PITTSBURGH-As the Civil War was raging, thousands of American readers would wait to get news on the ... The exhibit has been at several museums around the country since its creation two decades ago, ...

This cover image released by Knopf shows “Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War” by Michael Vorenberg ... thieves pull off biggest art heist in history Today in ...