"The Civil War was the most important event in American history, the crossroads of our being,” says documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, whose 1990 The Civil War won 40 major television and film honors.

"Incidents of the war: A harvest of death." The three days of conflict at Gettysburg resulted in 51,000 casualties, making it the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Courtesy: Library of Congress ...

The Civil War was an extremely divisive time in American history that split the North and South into the Union and the ...

Noting that “Americans of the Civil War years enjoyed unprecedented levels of literacy and did not hesitate to record what they had seen, heard, and done in a flood of letters, diaries, and memoirs,” ...

The film "Gettysburg" reflects on the historical significance of the Gettysburg battlefield, where many soldiers fought and died during the Civil War. It highlights the importance of preserving this ...