Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

Filmmaker Alex Garland has teamed up with former Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza to make a new kind of war film. “Warfare” is based on ...

“The American Civil War has an official end date, and that end date is August 1866,” Vorenberg said. Notably, the official end date comes “16 months after the end date that we typically assume, which ...

which argued that the South’s involvement in the Civil War was about states’ rights and heroism, not slavery. At the Atlanta History Center’s Margaret Mitchell House, which celebrates the ...

Submitted photo April 9 marks the 160th anniversary of the day America’s Civil War ended when General Lee surrendered to General Grant at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia ... was also making ...

The legislation is unlikely to advance in the Republican-led House, but it highlights ... amid the country's Reconstruction era, the 12-year period after the Civil War when the 13th, 14th and ...

advising on sequences like the assault on the White House that ends Garland’s last film, “Civil War.” Mendoza had a personal experience in mind, from November 2006, when he and a group of ...