June 13: Congress sends the Fourteenth Amendment to the states. It writes the Republican vision of how post-Civil War American society should be structured into the U.S. Constitution, out of the ...

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

However, these staggering numbers still offer profound insight into the immense tragedy experienced by the American people throughout the Civil War.

September 20thUS president Barack Obama calls for the last of Gadafy's forces to surrender as he announces the return of the US ambassador to Tripoli. Gadafy taunts Nato in a speech broadcast by ...

This cover image released by Knopf shows “Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War” by Michael Vorenberg .

After the American Civil War, many southern states retained racist rules and systems. The 1896 Supreme Court ruling allowing segregation was not successfully challenged until 1954. The fight for ...