Kings and Generals' animated historical documentary series continues with a new installment on the American Civil War, following their coverage of the American Revolution. The setup episode explores ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

In April 1861, Confederate troops fired on the federally held Fort Sumter in Charleston, plunging the nation into the Civil War – the bloodiest four years in American history. The Civil War ...

The civilizational inflection point in our cold civil war happened sometime between Donald Trump's second inaugural address on Monday and the end of his new presidency's second da ...