For four bloody years, the Civil War ravaged America. Those at home could only imagine the sights and events overtaking their husbands and sons, fathers and bro

The U.S. Civil War touched the lives of millions of children on the battlefield and the home front. Based on eyewitness accounts of 120 children, ages four to s

Chronicles the Civil War using photographs taken by Mathew Brady and his employees.

Few images of black Americans in the Civil War period exist or have survived, but now the granddaughter of a South Carolina slave has assembled the most compreh

A moving account of one year in the early 1980s spent by a Quaker doctor with guerrillas in El Salvador.