William Harvey Carney, born in slavery, was the hero of the Battle of Battery Wagner, fought in South Carolina in 1863.

A look at the people and events that shaped the Civil War and Reconstruction. Discover the people and events that document the American story — Saturdays on C-SPAN2. Come along with American ...

Researching her family history, Cheryl Wills found she was related to a former slave who served in the Civil War with the United States Colored Troops, which led her to a distant relative, a ...

The Civil War is an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers if ...

Democrats were more likely to view a civil war in the near future as possible, according to the poll.

“Civil War,” the new dystopian film about an alternate United States wracked by warfare between armed factions and an authoritarian government, has been a box-office hit. The film reinforces a ...

This ambitious thriller comes across as an empty stunt — a democracy dystopia that sidesteps the politics of the present moment. But Kirsten Dunst is excellent as a battle scarred photojournalist.

Civil War reenactors’ love triangle ends in revenge porn and $10.5 million federal lawsuit Exclusive: Reenactor Lisa Twark, a 54-year-old veterinarian, discovered her reenactor husband was ...

The far right is calling for civil war after the FBI raid on Trump's home. Experts say that fight wouldn't look like the last one.

Archaeologists recently announced the discovery of skeletons at Colonial Williamsburg – but the skeletons weren’t from the Revolutionary War.

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