The nation's oldest historic preservation society, which formed in the years leading up to the Civil War to save Washington's house, kept it open to both sides during the war and protected it in ...

After the Civil War, 18 veterans of the United States Colored ... Bernard Demczuk, who was a George Washington University administrator and lecturer, was writing about Unionville.

Soon after the war, Gardner published his Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War, closed his Washington gallery, and went West to photograph the route of the Union Pacific Railroad. It was at ...

George Washington Carver was born into slavery during the Civil War. He overcame countless obstacles in both getting his ...

Housed in the restored Jefferson Barracks 1905 Post Exchange Building, the Missouri Civil War Museum is the oldest active military installation west of the Mississippi River. Within the 22,000 ...