The Union faces off against the Confederacy in the first battle of the war. Lincoln soon realizes this war won’t be as brief as he thought, in this clip from Season 1, "A President At War." ...

Explore the complexities of the Civil War in this video, examining whether it was truly "civil." Key sources include Lil Mac's letter discussing McClellan and Lincoln, the implications of the Lieber ...

The 2020s have been quietly blessed with some of the best war movies of the century so far. From a modern interpretation of All Quiet on the Western Front and the bleak Bosnian film Quo Vadis, Aida?, ...

Cardinal Blase J. Cupich is the archbishop of Chicago. On a summer day after the Civil War began in 1861, civilians including elites, politicians and socialites packed picnic baskets with sandwiches ...