Many now believe that the U.S. could descend into political violence. Some are joining survivalist communities, canning food—and buying guns.

Many Americans feared a second Civil War if Donald Trump, the Republican candidate, lost the 2024 US presidential election.

He had experience in Congress as both a representative and senator, and had been secretary of war under President Franklin ...

Though a civil war can feel frighteningly possible in the U.S. in 2024, it remains extremely implausible. These wars are by ...

non-violence is not guaranteed to be a permanent characteristic of the Second Civil War. There are those on both the left and the right who call for American “unity.” But these calls are ...

The Civil War has been given many names: the War Between the States, the War Against Northern Aggression, the Second American Revolution, the Lost Cause, the War of the Rebellion, the Brothers ...

We know how long and how painfully the ramifications of what is coming will be felt. Millions of words have been written ...

This volume narrates the major battles and campaigns of the conflict, conveying the full military experience during the Civil War. The military encounters between Union and Confederate soldiers and ...

A documentary special provides an overview of the U.S. military across the centuries, mostly focusing on the American ...

Discover the people and events that document the American story ... the 1863 Combahee River rai… Civil War scholar Peter Luebke talked about the 1862 Second Manassas Campaign and argued ...

Editor's Note: Shauna Devine, Ph.D., is a historian of Civil War and American medicine. She has a Ph.D. in medical history and currently holds a joint appointment as a research fellow at the ...

In 1864, amid the U.S. Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was elected to his second term as president. He was assassinated five ...