More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to the outbreak of the bloodiest conflict in the history of North America? A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the ...

In the 1800s, before the Civil War, if you were anti-slavery ... After they have watched the History Detectives episode John Brown Pike, tell the class that they will find out about other ...

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 ...

Albert Cashier, an Irish immigrant who came to America sometime before the Civil War, watched the 15th Illinois Infantry Regiment march off to join Ulysses S. Grant and what would soon be called ...

The disputes escalated into a civil war in 1642. After nearly seven years ... the most violent and destructive episodes in British history. This was a struggle between King Charles I and ...

But we should remember that it took brutal civil war, fought by men here like ... experiences of children evacuated during World War 2. The History of Women's Football. videoThe History of ...

For all that, New Market Heights is little more than a footnote in Civil War history—a battle, scholars agree, that deserves better. “It fell to black sergeants to keep the unit organized ...

The simple copper and cardboard urns gathering dust on shelves only had the name of each of the 28 soldiers — but nothing ...