The American Civil War erupted in 1861 with the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, followed soon after by the First Battle of Bull Run. This video traces the opening shots of the war, the shockwaves ...

Trace the real causes of the American Civil War in this first part of a detailed historical series, covering the key events and tensions from 1819 to 1861. Uncover how decades of political conflict, ...

The partially completed Catholic Church, poised as the fort to be used in defense of the futilely attempted Confederate ...

Lucy Whitehead, Royal Holloway, University of London A Christmas Carol is usually read as a Victorian morality tale about ...

In 2007, Ed Todd wrote about "Christmas-lore's enduring newspaper essay." We have republished it in honor of the man who penned so many great stories about the depth of the human spirit.

In 'Stories of Words and Phrases', Sumanto Chattopadhyay peels back the layers of language and takes us on a rollicking ride ...

The micro-histories of the city are of endless interest to us and inform many of our research-based exhibitions” ...

The partisan rhetoric of the post-Civil War period was unique to its historical moment, yet not unique as a political tactic. Instead, while the terminology has ...

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was not just a leader but a visionary thinker whose words continue ...

Washingtonians in 1860 could take trains directly to Baltimore and from there to Philadelphia, Harrisburg, or the trans-Appalachian West. A journey from Alexandria to Richmond, however, required a ...

When war broke out again in Europe on September 1, 1939, the Depression-era U.S. Army was only some 170,000 soldiers ...

George T. Stagg transformed bourbon from a regional spirit into a national icon. His legacy endures today in one of America’s most celebrated and collectible whiskeys.