We noticed an artillery projectile found lodged in the brick wall of Civil War FORT SUMTER during a historic tour with the ...

Kings and Generals continues its animated historical documentary series with a new focus on the American Civil War. This series follows their previous coverage of the American Revolution, now ...

One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

One can hardly imagine what the night of Feb. 17, 1865, must have been like in Charleston. Hours before surrendering to Union ...

American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

On April 12, 1861, Captain George S. James fired the first Confederate shot at Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, leading to a siege, a Union retreat and the start of the Civil War. Exhibits ...

This April marks the 150th anniversary of the Civil War’s first battle, at Fort Sumter in South Carolina ... anyone in the United States who doesn’t have some connection to the American Civil War,” he ...

You probably remember Fort Sumter as the place where the first shot of the Civil War was fired back in 1861. Today, you can see for yourself where all the action happened by taking a ferry to the ...

Fort Sumter National Monument Superintendent Tim Stone said Monday the flags will be part of an historical display at the fort where the Civil War began. The display will include flags that flew ...

If that Freudian slip was our cold civil war’s Fort Sumter, then Obama’s presidency ... The first Trump presidency was, in many ways, the American people’s reaction to the rise of the ...

Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...