A timeline of the Civil War President Lincoln visits General George B. McClellan at camp. Throughout the early 1860s, the Northern and Southern states held sustained disagreements on several key ...

Abraham Lincoln is responsible for one of the boldest and most far-reaching uses of executive powers in American history by his announcement that enslaved people would soon be "forever free" on this ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The Confederacy lacked the resources to produce a working helicopter. It’s the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863 and Union forces on Cemetery Ridge await ...