Civil War

<p><span class="deck">During three days in May 1863, the Confederate leader took astonishing risks to win one of the most skillfully conducted battles in history. But the cost turned out to be too steep.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">He wrote down everything he saw in a career that stretched from the Civil War well into this century.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">After every war in the nation’s history, the military has faced not only calls for demobilization, but new challenges and new opportunities. It is happening again.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A scholar searches across two centuries to discover the main engine of our government’s growth, and reaches a controversial conclusion.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">This isn’t the first time a Virginia governor has found himself embroiled in controversy about the commercialization of a Civil War site.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The Union Army’s siege ended in 1865, but it still has a grip on Petersburg, Virginia.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">William Fletcher went off to war with surprisingly few illusions, and nothing he saw there gave him new ones.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> DRAWN WITH THE SWORD</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> MOTHERS OF INVENTION<br />
Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">COMING TO TERMS WITH THE MOST COMPELLING AND MYSTERIOUS OF CIVIL WAR HEROES</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A shot fired in the last days of the Civil War has kept its power to wound.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Finding African-American history in the cradle of the Confederacy</span></p>

<p>It turns out that my great-grandfather fought to free my daughter.</p>

<p><span class="deck">The Old South has survived along Georgia’s Antebellum Trail, where the Civil War seems to have happened only yesterday.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A LEADING CIVIL WAR HISTORIAN CHANGES ONE SMALL HAPPENSTANCE—WHICH IN TURN CHANGES EVERYTHING</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">When mudslinging in Congress led to actual bloodshed</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Is it a symbol of a brave past or a banner of treason? And is there perhaps another Southern standard to be raised?</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">How two devotees of the American flag and one Supreme Court justice shaped the story of a border town and the nation</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> RESEARCHERS PREPARE TO LOOK INSIDE THE LONG-BURIED CONFEDERATE SUBMARINE</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">Richard Dobbins has made it his mission to gather every single record of every single soldier into one huge, organized, searchable internet database.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A five-day uprising by Irish immigrants in New York was ostensibly against the draft, but was in fact a chance for Irish mobs to attack and murder as many black people as possible.</span></p>

<p>A federal tariff in 1828 that favored northern industry infuriated southerners and played a role in eventual secession.</p>

<p>From "The General" to "Gettysburg," spanning 66 years, these movies have done the best to capture America's worst war.</p>

<p><span class="deck">Humvees with Humps</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">One of Lee’s greatest lieutenants is slowly winning his reputation back after losing it for daring to criticize his boss.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The New York Stock Exchange plans to modernize by merging with a new competitor, just as it did in 1869.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> Trying to understand the Civil War’s ugliest incident</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">Would the disastrous Reconstruction era have taken a different course?</span></p>

<p><span class="body"><span class="body">Lincoln painstakingly evolved a plan for harmonious reconstruction of the Union, which Radical Republicans moved to sabotage</span></span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Not until the Civil War was about over did the U.S. Navy manage to put a halt to the South’s imports</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The memoirs of Civil War correspondent SYLVANUS CADWALLADER were recently discovered and edited by Lincoln biographer Benjamin Thomas</span></p>

<p>Archaeologists in Georgia have found the location of the prison that served as an overflow facility for Andersonville.</p>

<p>South Carolina severed ties with the Union not out of concern for states' rights but because of slavery</p>

<p>In one momentous decision, Robert E. Lee spared the United States years of divisive violence.</p>

<p>The highly lucrative cotton crop of 1860 emboldened the South to challenge the economic powerhouse of the North</p>