Southern sympathizers mocked German soldiers as "Hessians." A few threw rocks. Somebody fired shots. Union troops opened fire ...

Movies like Alex Garland’s “Civil War” and video games like “Fallout 3” frequently annihilate this city of symbols. Here’s ...

He would spend six-and-a-half months at the infamous Andersonville prison in southwest Georgia, a site that would come to symbolize the brutal suffering of the Civil War. Almost a year after his ...

The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack ... Many fugitives were put into crowded camps, where starvation and disease led to a high death rate. Northern citizens, black and ...

Some 200 miles southeast of Atlanta, Magnolia Springs is also the location of Camp Lawton, a surprisingly undisturbed Civil War site, where Confederate forces, for a brief time, imprisoned Union ...

Despite the fact that it isn’t quite what it was marketed as being, I thoroughly enjoyed Civil War — its tight direction and strategic use of violence to shock audiences’ consciences make it ...

"Dear Ones at Home: Letters from Contraband Camps" (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1966), Sarah Chase quotation on p. 62. Susie King Taylor, "A Black Woman’s Civil War Memoirs," ed.

Ba Dak crawled out of his sleeping bag, unzipped the tent flap and stepped into the frigid February air. The camp, tucked ...

Alex Garland’s provocative “ Civil War ” didn’t only ignite the discourse. The film also inspired audiences to go to the cinemas this weekend where it surpassed expectations and earned $25 ...

Decisions by administrators to either concede some demands of the protesters or allow their activity to continue stand out ...

Police cleared a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at George Washington University early Wednesday and arrested demonstrators, hours after dozens marched to the home of the school's president as city ...

Rick Riordan and the Sea of Monsters He included a black-and-white photo of a Civil ... Annabeth Chase (Leah Jeffries).