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 ...

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Imagine a Civil War where Confederate soldiers wield M16 rifles instead of muskets. This alternate history explores how modern weaponry could have reshaped tactics, strategies, and battle outcomes.

An October conference examined the legacy of the Siege of Petersburg, a grim episode in America’s “great single tragic event.” ...

We step back in history to a Civil War Confederate Camp with reenactors. We take a closer look at their equipment and show ...

WILLIAMSBURG — National officers of the United Daughters of the Confederacy were on hand for a solemn memorial service Friday morning at the graves of four unknown Civil War soldiers recently reburied ...

The remains of four Confederate soldiers, uncovered last year during archaeological excavations near the Powder Magazine in Colonial Williamsburg, will be reburied in the city’s Cedar Grove Cemetery ...

A grave marker honoring Confederate soldiers who died in the Civil War stands on city owned property in Richmond, Virginia, on Friday May 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Olivia Diaz)(AP/Olivia Diaz) RICHMOND, Va.

SEATTLE — For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage facilities at a funeral home and cemetery in Seattle. The simple copper and ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — Archaeologists in Virginia were excavating the grounds of a building that stored gunpowder during the American Revolution when they uncovered the eye sockets of a human skull.

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — Archaeologists in Virginia were excavating the grounds of a building that stored gunpowder during the American Revolution when they uncovered the eye sockets of a human skull.