American flags fly in formation—and a Civil War Living History Camp will be open to the public at no cost on Memorial Day ...

K. Denise Rucker Krepp’s Confederate forebear had an Army base named in his honor. She played a role in getting it changed.

(These could be seen as the first shots fired in the Civil War, but the true point of no return wouldn’t come for another few months.) By April, the garrison at Fort Sumter was running low on food.

Larson wrote his new book, "The Demon of Unrest," about the events leading up to the bombardment of Fort Sumter by Confederate forces – the first shots fired in the Civil War. Larson calls it ...

The past was brought back to life at a Southeast Kansas historical site – this weekend. It was for the 41st annual Civil War ...

This fairly pitiful scene made an interesting accompaniment to the country’s biggest movie at the moment, Alex Garland’s “Civil War,” which ... likely to be our Fort Sumter moment.

Illinois' governor and first lady have donated a key Civil War document signed by Abraham Lincoln to the presidential library ...

April is a good time to explore local sites that focus on the American Civil War, which began on April 12, 1861, with the attack on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor and ended on April 9 ...

Well, “Civil War” proves that theory wrong. The chatter around director Alex Garland’s film began last December when its trailer debuted. It includes a few recognizable hot buttons ...

On a technical level, cinematography, sound design, general direction, Civil War sings. All of those elements easily put the audience in the unsettling headspace of our protagonists. Those ...

A still from director Alex Garland's film "Civil War." (Courtesy A24) What we’ve got here is failure to communicate. Writer-director Alex Garland’s “Civil War” begins with a provocative ...

“Civil War,” Alex Garland’s ominous American dystopia, remained the top film in theaters in its second week of release, according to studio estimates Sunday. The A24 election-year ...