Is civil war looming in the United States? This has been a recurring contention among some political commentators and ...

The group came together after a number of like-minded women donned period dress at a museum event commemorating the establishment of the U.S. Bureau of Colored Troops during the Civil War.

Soldiers and Sailors Monument is located on Boston Common. It is 126-feet high and dedicated to the memory of Massachusetts veterans of the U.S. Civil War. It was designed by Martin Milmore. On ...

The accepted number for deaths in the American Civil War for more than a century has been 620,000 from both sides of the conflict. But now a history professor at the State University of New York ...

I n January 1972, when I was a 13-year-old boy in Dublin, my father came home from work and told us to prepare for civil war.He was not a bloodthirsty zealot, nor was he given to hysterical ...

The Civil War officially ended on Aug. 20, 1866, but Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army 16 months earlier on April 9, 1865.

Meanwhile, there are distinctive European conditions that make civil war less likely there than in the United States: Smaller nations with more centralized political systems generally find it ...