This exhibit aims to put other theories to rest. And the American Civil War Museum is in Richmond, the former capital of the Confederacy and the current state capital, which just four years ago ...

Virginia and the Forging of a Nation” opens in conjunction with the 250th anniversary of Patrick Henry’s famous speech made ...

The American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar and the White House of the Confederacy can both be found in Richmond, while the Museum of the Confederacy at Appomattox sits in Appomattox ...

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

Renowned filmmaker Ken Burns is headed to Richmond to preview his new docuseries, “The American Revolution” at Altria Theater ...

No fewer than 14 African-American soldiers were ... a historian at the Richmond National Battlefield who has written several books on the Civil War. “The fact that there's been no preserved ...

Throughout much of the Civil War, a key Union objective was to penetrate the South and seize the city of Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy. In order to take the city, Union troops ...

This cover image released by Knopf shows "Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War" by Michael Vorenberg. ...

Ten days after Richmond, Lincoln went to the theatre ... itself “thrilled by the death of our oppressor." The American Civil War left a bitter legacy. In the south, burned and devastated ...