By 1895, the United States was a very different nation than it had been in 1865. The Civil War was over, the American west had been settled, and immigration was at record heights. As historian ...

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

Brady was 15 years old when he met William Page, the American portrait ... full title to his Civil War images. A kidney condition finally forced Brady's hospitalization in 1895, and on January ...

After the American Civil War, many southern states retained racist rules and systems. The 1896 Supreme Court ruling allowing segregation was not successfully challenged until 1954. The fight for ...