When Americans disagreed on the power of individual states to control their respective governments and institutions, they fought a war, between themselves, during 1861 to 1865. Other countries have also fought "civil wars." These stories focus on those people, places and events.
Mary is tried and sentenced to hang.
The Union loses the battle for Fredericksburg; however, a Confederate soldier brings water to the injured enemy.
Alexei, the fifth child and only son of Nicholas II ("Tsar of all the Russias"), is born with hemophilia.
Learn about mid-19th century New York fashion, places, people and facts.
Once he gives up the throne, Nicholas and his family live in exile. Their lives are now very different from their royal upbringing.
Stonewall Jackson is accidentally shot by his own troops and has his left arm amputated at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
This chapter describes Jacobo Timerman's arrest and imprisonment
Booth changes his plans and kills the president at Fords Theater.
With his second wife, the white woman Helen Pitts Douglass, "The Old Man Eloquent" continues to live at Cedar Hill.
Life in Five Points is difficult with overcrowding, high child mortality, unemployment, little food available and violent crimes.
Six weeks into his second term, Lincoln becomes the first President assassinated when John Wilkes Booth shoots him at Ford's Theater.
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