Fifty-five years of living in the Southeast during which we enjoyed lots of travel resulted in visiting most of the National ...

All years end on December 31, of course, but 1865 was a particularly special year—for The Nation, for the nation, and for the world. The Civil War had ended, Abrahama Lincoln had been ...

Recipes from a time when Southern infrastructure was a long way from being restored, but families had to keep everyone fed.

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought ...

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

Finally, on April 18, 1865, the Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate army. 617,000 Americans had died in the war, approximately the same number as in all of America's other wars ...

Although the American Civil War ended April 9, 1865, when Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, the war ...

How much do you know about the Civil War? Our history quiz covers some of the basic Civil War questions that we feel are ...

The episode begins with William Tecumseh Sherman's brilliant march to the sea, which brings the war to the heart of Georgia and the Carolinas and spells the end of the Confederacy. In March ...

That was certainly the case for the October 4, 1865, issue. This was a mere six months after the end of the Civil War, at a time when Southern states were still in rough shape overall. Slavery was ...