Test your knowledge of the American Civil War with this quiz! Answer questions about key figures, causes, battles, and ...

When they emerge from their books and battlefields, the scholars and historians specializing in the original Civil War, from 1861-65, rarely believe that sort of starkly regional conflict would ...

September 1861: Settling in for a Long War During this month, the civil war expands to Kentucky and West Virginia, and President Lincoln rejects an attempt at emancipation ...

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 ...

Historian Jay Winik writes about the leadup to the outbreak of the Civil War in “1861: The Lost Peace.” The Associated Press' Andrew DeMillo writes that the political intrigue in Winik's book ...

1861: The Lost Peace. By Jay Winik. Grand Central Publishing. 304 pages. $35. More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book with ...

But “1861” is one of the few Civil War histories where Lincoln isn’t the most compelling figure. That title goes to a cast of characters, ...

More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book “April 1865: The Month That Saved America." His latest ...