Politics and the Pandemic Exact Another Toll: Battle Reenactments Are on the Wane
The famed battlefield in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, had about 536,553 visitors last year, a 92 percent decrease from its peak draw in 1970
Union Troopers with a Southern Twang
Alabama cavalrymen spearheaded General Sherman’s March to the Sea
Escape Was Hopeless: A Stonewall Brigade Captain at Gettysburg
A Stonewall Brigade captain recounts the savage July 3, 1863, fight for Culp’s Hill at Gettysburg
Out of the Shadows: Interview with Civil War Historian Edward G. Longacre
Longacre takes a look at Custer and the unsung hero of Gettysburg, David McMurtrie Gregg
Who Knew? The Art Deco Building in Gettysburg that Housed German POWs During WWII
What’s this striking art deco building doing in the middle of the nation’s most important Civil War battlefield?
John Bachelder: How the Visionary Helped Preserve Gettysburg’s History
John Bachelder worked tirelessly to commemorate the July 1863 battle
House Votes to Remove Confederate Statues from Capitol
The bill passed in a 285-120 vote
‘Another Round Top’: How a Civil War Hero Once Again Answered His Nation’s Call
With Maine torn apart by political violence in 1880, war hero Joshua Chamberlain again answered the call
How Father’s Day Traces Its Roots to One Civil War Veteran
The day devoted to all things dad was kickstarted by one woman seeking to honor her Civil War veteran father
First Lieutenant Ira Dutton’s Final Bivouac
As of 2019, devoted individuals from his native Vermont had petitioned Rome to open his cause for sainthood.
A Place of Their Own: Veterans of the Civil War
As Civil War veterans struggled to reenter society, some formed their own unique communities
A Brave New World? Confederate Planning for a Post-Civil War
A detailed look at the world that Confederate politicians and planners imagined would exist in the wake of a Southern victory in the Civil War
Several Crucial Strategies that Shaped the 1862 Seven Days Campaign
A handful of critical decisions altered the course of the 1862 Seven Days Campaign
Indian Campaigns Medal of Honor Recipient To Be Laid to Rest Today
The remains of Sgt. Robert McPhelan were found in a section of the cemetery that was reserved for paupers or unclaimed bodies
Pomp and Circumstance in the Civil War
War was still a bloodless adventure when these rare camp images were taken
Nation’s Largest Confederate Memorial, Stone Mountain, to Get New Exhibit Explaining the Site’s ‘whole story’
The exhibit is being developed by "credible and well-established historians… to tell the warts-and-all history of the Stone Mountain carving"
