The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

The shortage of industrial goods together with the ineffectiveness of the railroads led to ... a long way until the final victory: there was still the Civil War, which lasted until 1923 and ...

When Lincoln left Illinois and headed east for his inauguration, he told the crowd at the Springfield railroad station that he confronted ... Lincoln had to grapple with the evolving meaning of the ...

While her activities as a Civil War spy are less well known, her devotion to America and its promise of freedom endured ...