Dave Bakke: Black Civil War veteran's grave identified at Oak Ridge

People keep finding notable Civil War veterans buried in unmarked graves at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield. Last year, it was Leroy Key, who was a hero at Andersonville prison. This year, it is Lewis (sometimes spelled “Louis”) Martin.

Drew Gilpin Faust on the Civil War: The work of death

Even though "we all have our dead," and even though we all die, we do so differently from generation to generation and from place to place.

Wayne Co. Public Library to display Civil War photography exhibit

Wayne Co. Public Library to display Civil War photography exhibit

‘Whipping Man’: A Civil War seder as the South crumbles

The characters of Matthew Lopez’s engrossing if soberly conventional Civil War drama, “The Whipping Man,” gather around a makeshift seder table in the ruins of a stately Richmond homestead to remember Moses’s deliverance of his people from enslavement by the pharaoh. Read full article >>

REVIEW: The War (Blu-ray)

THE SERIES:Over the past thirty years, Ken Burns has come to be regarded as one of, if not The finest...