History's Headlines: Gather round, all you Civil War buffs

In 1940 the first Civil War Roundtable was founded in Chicago. The Lehigh Valley’s is named the Civil War Roundtable of ...
The National Interest

Brig. Gen. Meagher’s Irish Brigade Made History in the American Civil War

In September of 1861, Thomas Meagher began recruiting Irishmen to form a new Irish brigade. In honor of St. Patrick’s Day (known in Gaelic as Lá Fhéile Pádraig, i.e. “the Day of the Festival of ...
WTOP News

Abraham Lincoln statue unveiled outside African American Civil War Museum

President Abraham Lincoln signed the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation 162 years ago this week. To celebrate, dozens of people gathered for the unveiling of a new presidential statue outside the ...
University of Wyoming

UW History Professor Earns Wiley-Silver Prize for the Best First Book in Civil War History

Cecily Zander, an assistant professor of history at the University of Wyoming, has earned the 2025 Center for Civil War Research’s Wiley-Silver Prize for the best first book in Civil War history. This ...