From Gettysburg to Minneapolis: How the American Civil War continues to shape how we understand contemporary political conflicts and their dangers

As anger about the presence of ICE in Minneapolis divided the nation, Americans turned to the American Civil War for ...

Contributor: Our era really is like the Civil War in one key way

Reaching for parallels in the Revolution and abolition, Americans are no longer debating conventional public policy. We are debating identity.
The Statehouse News Bureau

‘The Copperhead Conspiracy’ explores a forgotten Civil War story set in the Midwest

The new podcast is about a conspiracy that took place in Ohio and several other Midwestern states during the Civil War.
WDIO

Meet the last ever Civil War veteran

Hundreds of thousands of Americans North and South fought in the Civil War, including a Union drummer boy named Albert Woolson. He couldn’t have known it in 1864 when he enlisted at age 14, but at the ...

The Battle of Stones River transformed Murfreesboro and shaped the course of the Civil War

The sprawling city Murfreesboro was once a tiny town of about 3,000 people during one of the most consequential battles of ...