On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged southern states. The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many ...

So began a long career working on the “Diamond,” what we refer to today as Memorial Square. It was in late June 1863 when ...

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to the outbreak of the bloodiest conflict in the history of North America? A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the ...

A look at the people and events that shaped the Civil War and Reconstruction. Discover the people and events that document the American story — Saturdays on C-SPAN2. Come along with American ...

Regarded as the war’s finest general, Robert E. Lee was a master of the organization of war. The country’s most experienced general in 1861, he declined President Lincoln’s offer to head the ...

Grant and Robert E ... which brings the war to the heart of Georgia and the Carolinas and spells the end of the Confederacy. This extraordinary final episode of The Civil War begins in the ...

The ship’s pilot helped his family reach freedom, then served in the Civil War and in the U.S. Congress. Robert Smalls’s ...

Tensions are high heading into Election Day and the post-election period. Trump supporters outside his Madison Square Garden ...

I enjoy working with people who seek both short term solution-focused therapy and those who choose to pursue longer term goals of personality change in the context of depth psychology. There are ...

honoring a man who put on Confederate clothes in order to steal a slaveholder’s ship and sail his family and a dozen others to freedom during the Civil War. But Robert Smalls isn’t just ...

The state's archeological conservator opened a 130-year-old copper box that was discovered underneath the former Robert E ... from campus to a nearby Civil War museum following October allegations ...

Just like Tony and Peter, Robert Downey Jr. was a mentor for Tom ... While RDJ has his own job to do as Tony Stark in Captain America: Civil War, he also seemed to be focus on Tom Holland's ...