History In The Headlines

Category: American Civil War

Mary Surratt

Who Was Mary Surratt?

Who was Mary Surratt, an alleged collaborator in the plot to kill Abraham Lincoln and the inspiration behind the new movie “The Conspirator”?

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Key Part of Gettysburg Battlefield Preserved

The National Park Service has acquired a former golf course where a series of bloody clashes took place on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg.

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Civil War Artifacts Unearthed from Former Confederate Prison

In what archaeologists are calling the most important Civil War find in decades, rare artifacts have emerged from a former Confederate prison site in Georgia.