A newly discovered 150-year-old map of the Civil War’s Battle of Antietam shows thousands of graves of Union and Confederate soldiers killed near Sharpsburg, Md., in 1862.

A climate activist with a radical protest group smeared red paint on a Civil War exhibit honoring Black soldiers killed during a key 1863 battle.

They also note that, after the Civil War, Mosby befriended Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and expressed regret over his role in the Southern cause to maintain slavery, making his legacy more complicated.

The Civil War transformed Washington from a sleepy outpost into a federal city, its population nearly doubling between 1860 and 1870. Photograph courtesy of Library of Congress. During the two years I ...

The African-American Civil War Museum in Washington has been going through a major revamping as 2011 marks the 150th anniversary of the north and south's bitter battle between 1861-1865. To learn ...

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser cut the ribbon on a development project Thursday that will bring 100 jobs to the District and serve as the new home of the African American Civil War Museum. The ...

Anne Sarah Rubin talked about President George Washington and how his career, thoughts, and actions relate to the origins of the Confederacy and the coming of the Civil War. The unresolved ...