Troops loyal to the Confederacy repulsed a ship back to New York when it tried to deliver supplies at Fort Sumter, South ...

The American Civil War, fought from 1861 to 1865, was a defining moment in this nation’s history settling the question of ...

The Demon of Unrest” zooms in on a place, time and small group of actors whose individual dramas encapsulate broader events ...

In early 1861, as Erik Larson recounts in The Demon of Unrest, Fort Sumner in South Carolina withstood the first attack by ...

The fateful 163-year-old document had been in an anonymous private collection until its purchase at auction by Gov. J.B.

1861 — one week after secessionist forces fired on Fort Sumter at the entrance to Charleston harbor in South Carolina. An anonymous collector who owned the document put it up for auction ...

Following the Confederacy’s 1861 attack on Fort Sumter, often viewed as the event that sparked the Civil War, then-President ...

If you’re looking to learn about the American Civil War, here are some local sites that focus on the war, which began and ...

Ulysses S. Grant was not quite 40 in April 1861 when Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, beginning the Civil War. Grant, a ...

It is unsettling that in 1861 two of the greatest moments of national ... and the surrender of Fort Sumter by a small federal garrison, which had held on while surrounding Southern states ...

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

1861 — one week after secessionist forces fired on Fort Sumter at the entrance to Charleston harbor in South Carolina.