Editor’s Note: This essay series is written by Mercy Street's medical, historical and technical advisor, Stanley B. Burns, MD of The Burns Archive. At the time of the Civil War, as a result ...

Colorado in the Civil War. By John Steinle ... And the 1997 subscription war, known as the “penny war,” nearly brought the papers to their knees. Moreover, a recession and changing ...

All of the essays are well written, deeply researched, and throw considerable light on hitherto obscure corners of the war. One, “Capitals and Communities in War and Revolution,” examines the wartime ...

Photo courtesy of Library of Congress Civil War battles freed Robert Blake from slavery at a Charleston County rice plantation on the South Santee River. Then a rebel attack thrust him into a near ...

A Kentucky farmer stumbled on one of the biggest troves of Civil War gold coins ever found, fuelling the dreams of treasure ...

A Civil War museum in Texas that has faced criticism ... Writer Christopher Blay visited the museum in October 2019 and wrote an essay about it. In his essay, he noted that the museum’s website ...