The Atlanta History Center replaced an exhibition focused on military history with a reflection of America’s defining ...

Out of guilt or amnesia, we tend to treat wars, in retrospect, as natural disasters: terrible but somehow inevitable, beyond anyone’s control. Shaking your fist at the fools who started the First ...

As time passes, history often becomes blurred. Stories are retold, facts are altered, and over generations, popular belief can drift far from the truth. Much like the old game of telephone, the ...

During the American Civil War soldiers often saw UFOs and strange beings, leading Ancient Astronaut Theorists to ask if extraterrestrials may have actually influenced the course of the war in this ...

The American Civil War was by far the deadliest conflict in U.S. history. From the start of the war in April 1861, with the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, until General Robert E. Lee’s surrender ...

Law enforcement officials say a set of stolen Civil War-era cannonballs was discovered in a passenger's suitcase during a ...

“A house divided against itself, cannot stand.’ I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.” 37 —Abraham Lincoln The Civil War was about slavery, although both sides ...

Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861, by Robert W. Merry. Simon & Schuster, 528 pages. With Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South ...