History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

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

Lee, the Confederate general who led southern forces during the Civil War. In a 1998 feature on high ... not long after Lee surrendered to the Union Army, at a Virginia college where Lee served ...

A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, will be a top ...

After the Civil War, Arkansas veterans returned home and attempted to revert to civilian life. During the immediate postwar ...

The Jessamine County Courthouse lawn is home to a one-of-a-kind Confederate Civil War monument that wears a Union soldier's hat. David Swartz is a historian and professor, who spent five years ...

Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...