Skip to main content

Articles with keyword "Civil War"

Illustration of Henry Brown

Statement

This End Up

Henry Box Brown mailed himself to freedom.

Rowhouse in Chestertown

Feature

Majoring in History

A visit to Chestertown, Maryland.

Scene from "The Abolitionists"

Feature

The Agitator

William Lloyd Garrison burned the Constitution as he roared against the injustice of slavery.

Georgia Congressman John Lewis speaks from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial

Feature

Celebrating Freedom

The meaning of the Emancipation Proclamation, for those at the time and for us today.

Thaddeus Stevens was a resolute fighter

Feature

Remarkable Radical: Thaddeus Stevens

Thaddeus Stevens was a fearsome reformer, who never backed down from a fight.

Richard Slotkin

IQ

Impertinent Questions with Richard Slotkin

The legacy of the Battle of Antietam.

Robert Smalls

Statement

A Voyage to Freedom

Robert Smalls commandeered a Confederate ship to escape from slavery in South Carolina.

Drawing of Jennison's Jayhawkers

Statement

Bushwhackers and Jayhawkers

Kansans relive the guerrilla raids of the Border Wars.

Burying the dead from the Battle of Cold Harbor

Feature

The Living and the Dead

The Civil War divided Americans into two kinds of people.

Elizabeth Brown Pryor (center)

Conversation

Letters From Robert E. Lee

Elizabeth Brown Pryor talks with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about her dual careers as a historian of antebellum America and a highly decorated diplomat working for the State Department.