History's Headlines: Gather round, all you Civil War buffs

In 1940 the first Civil War Roundtable was founded in Chicago. The Lehigh Valley’s is named the Civil War Roundtable of ...
CBS News

Pennsylvania museum ensuring thousands of Black Civil War soldiers' legacies not forgotten

As the nation prepares to celebrate Juneteenth, the legacy of thousands of Black Civil War soldiers who once trained in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, will never be forgotten, thanks to the Camp ...
The National Interest

Brig. Gen. Meagher’s Irish Brigade Made History in the American Civil War

In September of 1861, Thomas Meagher began recruiting Irishmen to form a new Irish brigade. In honor of St. Patrick’s Day (known in Gaelic as Lá Fhéile Pádraig, i.e. “the Day of the Festival of ...
University of Wyoming

UW History Professor Earns Wiley-Silver Prize for the Best First Book in Civil War History

Cecily Zander, an assistant professor of history at the University of Wyoming, has earned the 2025 Center for Civil War Research’s Wiley-Silver Prize for the best first book in Civil War history. This ...