Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

A.J. Schenkman’s plate always seems to be full. Not only is he a seventh-grade social studies teacher at John G. Borden ...

Renowned documentarian Ken Burns spoke about the nearly 10-year process of creating his latest film, "The American Revolution ...

Kings and Generals launches its animated historical documentary series on the American Civil War by asking the essential ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

With nothing planned at Locust Hill African Cemetery for the 160th anniversary of the end to the Civil War, not that such a ...

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

Last month, Associate Professor of History Michael Vorenberg published his new book, “Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War.” The book challenges the traditional narrative that ...

When the National Park Service rewrote the Underground Railroad's story, it pulled Cincinnati's Freedom Center into Trump's ...

Today’s episode will focus on one of the biggest – and most important – turning points in world history; the Battle of ...