Today’s episode will focus on one of the biggest – and most important – turning points in world history; the Battle of ...

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

A new "pseudo-documentary" examines what contemporary America would have looked like had the South won the Civil War. CSA: The Confederate States of America is the brainchild of Kevin Wilmot, a ...

The American Civil War was by far the deadliest conflict in U.S. history. From the start of the war in April 1861, with the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, until General Robert E. Lee’s ...

By June of 1861, ten more states followed suit, forming the Confederate States of America. The Civil War started in April 1861 and raged for four years , according to Encyclopedia Brittanica.

A faux Ken Burns-style documentary recounting the last 140 years of American history as if the South had won the Civil War, “C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America” is more intriguing on ...

Roger Ransom talked about his book, [The Confederate States of America: What Might Have Been], in which he imagines how the United States would look if the Confederate states had won the Civil War.

Exactly 150 years ago Thursday, the Civil War ended with what historian Bruce Catton would later describe as “A Stillness At Appomattox.” Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at the ...

In most key aspects of the American Civil War – from money and manpower to guns and supplies – the Confederacy was outmatched by federal forces. Sharpshooter units were one notable exception ...

The Civil War officially ended on Aug. 20, 1866, but Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army 16 months earlier on April 9, 1865.