Bubbling under the surface for decades and then raging for four years, the American Civil War was a brutal conflict between the anti-slavery Union in the north and the pro-slavery Confederacy in ...

Burns, MD of The Burns Archive. At the time of the Civil War, as a result of lax laws, obtaining a medical degree was very easy; one only had to apprentice with a local physician and take a few ...

Archival images of 16,000 photographs, taken from a total of 1 million pictures of ... newsreel footage of Civil War veterans, evocative live cinematography of the now quiet battle sites ...