From Gettysburg to Minneapolis: How the American Civil War continues to shape how we understand contemporary political conflicts and their dangers

As anger about the presence of ICE in Minneapolis divided the nation, Americans turned to the American Civil War for ...
The Statehouse News Bureau

‘The Copperhead Conspiracy’ explores a forgotten Civil War story set in the Midwest

The new podcast is about a conspiracy that took place in Ohio and several other Midwestern states during the Civil War.
The Baltimore Sun

Labeling Marylanders ‘traitors’ goes too far | READER COMMENTARY

I am outraged that letter writer Harris Factor labels any family that wasn’t on the Union side during the American Civil War as a “traitor” (“Symbols of unity with Confederates should be tossed,” Feb.
WDIO

Meet the last ever Civil War veteran

Hundreds of thousands of Americans North and South fought in the Civil War, including a Union drummer boy named Albert Woolson. He couldn’t have known it in 1864 when he enlisted at age 14, but at the ...