When war broke out in 1861, kids across the North and the South said goodbye to their fathers, brothers, uncles, and cousins — or joined the military themselves.

As time passes, history often becomes blurred. Stories are retold, facts are altered, and over generations, popular belief can drift far from the truth. Much like the old game of telephone, the ...

For four straight years, Union and Confederate soldiers battled during the bloodiest war in American history. Both sides ...

Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861, by Robert W. Merry. Simon & Schuster, 528 pages. With Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Monica is an entertainment reporter covering TV, film, and music. Written and directed by Alex Garland, Civil War is set in a ...

Before Robert Redford secured his legacy as one of Hollywood's greatest movie stars, he appeared in one episode of a forgotten NBC drama about the Civil War.

Re “Don’t Call It the ‘Civil War,’” by Anthony Conwright (Opinion guest essay, Aug. 2): The American Civil War has been given many names: the Civil War, the War Between the States, the War of the ...

Mr. Marche is the author of “The Next Civil War.” “Not one man in America wanted the Civil War, or expected or intended it,” Henry Adams, grandson of John Quincy Adams, declared at the beginning of ...

Elizabeth Van Lew operated a network of spies in Richmond, Virginia, sending coded messages to General Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War. Undeterred by criticism from her Southern peers, Van Lew ...

Those in the media sounding the alarm about civil unrest are right to be worried, but popular explorations of the term “civil war” don’t go far enough. Abraham Lincoln at Antietam during the Civil War ...

In the mid-nineteenth century, marketing via the US Mail didn’t just mean sending folks unsolicited advertisements, brochures, tracts, newspapers, or fliers. It could also mean promoting a cause with ...

Expecting success from an A24 movie has become customary over recent years, with the financial triumph of films like Everything Everywhere All At Once a perfect illustration of this. By bringing ...