Today’s episode will focus on one of the biggest – and most important – turning points in world history; the Battle of ...

Alternate history is fiction that imagines what would be different if some specific event was changed. A new alt-history ...

A rain delay played an essential role in The Battle of Jackson, which was fought 162 years ago today in Jackson, Mississippi, ...

The Civil War (1861-1865) is America’s bloodiest war to date. It cost close to 1,100,000 casualties and claimed over 620,000 lives. These lesson plans are based on History Detectives episodes ...

There were about 55,000 physicians in the United States at the start of the Civil War ... MD overhauled the American military medical system. The war provided a vast resource of unusual wounds ...

The American Civil War is a pivotal and ugly moment in American history, but it's more misunderstood ... in the English Channel. The battle began brewing when the Confederate ship, the CSS Alabama ...