The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in ...

John Brown's obsession with ending slavery cast him as an abolitionist hero. In 1856, provoked by a bloody attack on Kansas settlers by “border ruffians,” Brown led a raid at Pottawatomie ...

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in ...

The Civil War, an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and produced in conjunction with WETA, Washington, D.C., first aired in September of 1990 to an ...

Booth was a Confederate sympathizer during the war. Fiercely opposed to abolition, he attended the hanging of John Brown. He was outspoken in his hatred of Abraham Lincoln, whose actions he saw as ...

This extraordinary final episode of The Civil War begins in the bittersweet aftermath of Lee's surrender and then goes on to narrate the horrendous events of five days later when, on April 14 ...

One of the techniques filmmaker Ken Burns harnessed so effectively in The Civil War was using the actual historical record—photographs, diaries, speeches—to "let the war tell its own story." ...