History holds lessons of things we should learn from as well as things we should never forget. The Day the War Stopped is a ...

Harry Woodring bought it, according to the Kansas Historical Society. "We even have stories of Civil War squatters staying here for a while, so we're looking for evidence of that, too," Murphy said.

In "1861: The Lost Peace," Winik covers the lead-up to the first shots being fired at Fort Sumter. The political intrigue ...

DALLAS (AP) — The origin of the Juneteenth celebrations marking the end of slavery in the U.S. goes back to an order issued as Union troops arrived in Texas at the end of the Civil War.

Its owners assert the establishment endured not just the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s and the Napoleonic invasion in the early 1800s, but even the War of Spanish Succession at the start of the ...