IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Between the winter of 1860 and the ...

America, we are being told by pundits and experts, has never been more divided. We're also being told that this election year is the most important in living memory. But a look back at the year 1864 ...

Award-winning Civil War historian William Marvel looks at the seeming revival of Confederate military efforts in the first half of 1864, despite devastating reverses incurred during the previous year, ...

At the time the Civil War began in 1861, the United States government did not print paper money; it only minted coins. As a historian of the American Civil War, I study how the Confederate government ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Robert Watson provided a short overview about the Civil War during the summer of 1864 and the near invasion of Washington, D.C., by ...

One hundred and sixty years ago, after Union forces had wrested control of the American Southwest from Confederate troops, President Abraham Lincoln appointed a New York judge to write the legal code ...

James Morgan Utz, who grew up on a farm in present-day Hazelwood, was hanged for being a Confederate spy on Dec. 26, 1864, at the old St. Louis County Jail, Chestnut and Sixth streets. Utz was 23 ...

Check out Joel Bohy's appraisal of a USCT sergeant's confederate bowie knife, ca. 1864, in LSU Rural Life Museum, Hour 1. Antiques Roadshow is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, ...