Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Ken Rutherford provides an overview of his lecture about the early history of landmines, which were used for the first time on a widespread ...

The issue of slavery divided the United States long before the election of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. After the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed in 1854, newly established states could use popular ...

The Civil War was the deadliest conflict ever fought on American soil with approximately 620,000 fatalities, according to History.com. Recent analysis could even suggest these numbers are higher than ...

Those in the media sounding the alarm about civil unrest are right to be worried, but popular explorations of the term “civil war” don’t go far enough. Abraham Lincoln at Antietam during the Civil War ...