While Memorial Day was this past Monday, today marks what was once an important, similar holiday known as Decoration Day and it’s still being honored in northeast Iowa. The Bay Church and Cemetery ...
DES MOINES --- One hundred and fifty years ago today, scores of Iowans serving in the Union Army were dug in, laying siege to the Mississippi town of Vicksburg. Two assaults, one on May 19, 1863, and ...
The 3rd Infantry Regiment, also known as the Old Guard, Caisson Platoon carry the remains of two unknown Civil War Union soldiers to their grave at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., on ...
"This mysterious providence" : Americans' initial responses to Civil War death -- "A heroic, eminent death" : the national dimensions of Lincoln's assassination ...
As anger about the presence of ICE in Minneapolis divided the nation, Americans turned to the American Civil War for ...
The Civil War meant different things to different people: Southerners fought a War of Northern Aggression, Northerners fought to save the Union. African-Americans fought for their freedom.