The popular Civil War Christmas in Camp program returned to Fort Ward Museum Dec. 9, featuring reenactors in winter camp settings and period Christmas decorations. The program highlights how Christmas ...

Two days after the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, we authored a piece for the Washington Post drawing on our expertise in Civil War and Reconstruction era political violence to contextualize ...

“We are the free world now.” Those words from Raphael Glucksmann, a French socialist member of the European Parliament, captured the pearl-clutching outrage of Europeans after the Trump administration ...

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The American Civil War. Remember it? Well, no, because you weren't alive. But you've read about it, and the Civil War officially ended exactly 160 years ago, with the last shot fired June 22, 1865.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Watching crews put the finishing touches on a Presidio building renovation, you might not realize the bulldozers are working directly beneath one of the oldest operating rooms ...

The soldiers probably did not have visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads as they shivered around the campfire at Fort Ward in December 1861 in Alexandria, Virginia, always on the alert for the ...

The Huntington has acquired a rare Civil War-era painting by American master Winslow Homer. “The Sutler’s Tent” was made in 1863 when Homer was traveling with the Union Army as an illustrator for ...

The American Civil War was arguably one of the most devastating conflicts in the history of the United States. Fought over slavery, it divided families and communities and, of course, the nation. It ...

CYNTHIANA, Ky. (WKYT) - More than 100 Civil War-era letters written by a Union Army soldier to his wife have been digitized and made available online through a new website created by the ...

Despite being far removed from the battle-torn southern and border states, Alton played a crucial role in the Civil War. We provided the Union armies with extraordinary soldiers such as Major Franklin ...

TL;DR: Ubisoft cancelled a planned Assassin's Creed game set during the Reconstruction Era due to socio-political sensitivities and backlash from previous titles. The game would have featured a freed ...