Annie’s public efforts made the invisible labor of so many women visible on a massive scale during a critical time in Iowa and U.S. history.

Cecily Zander, an assistant professor of history at the University of Wyoming, has earned the 2025 Center for Civil War Research’s Wiley-Silver Prize for the best first book in Civil War history. This ...

No two Americans had the same experience of the Civil War – and everyone remembers it differently. Through the stories they told – and the artifacts that survived – various narratives emerged! Untold ...

Out of guilt or amnesia, we tend to treat wars, in retrospect, as natural disasters: terrible but somehow inevitable, beyond anyone’s control. Shaking your fist at the fools who started the First ...

“The fabric of what binds America together at this point is basically on its final thread,” one source tells WIRED. It’s impossible to look around and not wonder whether the US is teetering on the ...

During the American Civil War, tens of thousands of soldiers used a simple envelope to cast their ballot from the battlefield.

Florida was the third state to secede from the Union during the Civil War. Around 15,000 Floridians fought in the Civil War, representing the highest percentage of any Confederate state. Florida faced ...

The answer is no. These Critical Questions use core findings from the academic literature on civil wars and political violence to situate recent tragic events and fundamentally challenge the notion ...

For more than a century, the Ionia County Courthouse has been home to a piece of American Civil War history — a battle flag sewn by local women and carried by men who formed a volunteer Union regiment ...