The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

Today’s episode will focus on one of the biggest – and most important – turning points in world history; the Battle of ...

The Civil War had ... On March 6, 1863, the Secretary of War was informed that "seven hundred and fifty blacks who were waiting for an opportunity to join the Union Army had been rescued from ...

It was in this month in 1865 the Civil War was largely ended, and the long painful task of rebuilding the nation began. It ...

Ten months into the Civil War, the Union ... even with Union port cities trying to pick up the slack, the U.S. imported 50 percent less by value from Brazil in 1863 than it did in 1860.

It was in this month in 1865 the Civil War was ... surrender of the war. The religious faith of these men was varied like the American population today. On the Union side, Grant was raised in ...