(WDBJ) - On this day in 1861, Union and Confederate troops clashed outside of Manassas, Virginia in the first major engagement of the Civil War. It began when Union General Irvin McDowell hoped to ...

On a summer day after the Civil War began in 1861, civilians including elites, politicians and socialites packed picnic ...

More than a century before streaming platforms and superhero cinematic universes, American filmmakers were already chasing scale, spectacle, the war film and national history. One of the boldest ...

The storming of Fort Sumter and the clash at Bull Run marked the explosive beginning of America’s deadliest war. What started as a short conflict would soon spiral into four years of bloodshed Path of ...

There are military artifacts with stories behind them across the state, but few are as famous as the two Civil War-era cannons that, until 2023, when they were "temporarily" relocated, could be seen ...

Decades of tension over slavery and secession exploded in 1861 when Confederate guns fired on Fort Sumter. Within months, the first major battle at Bull Run revealed just how bloody the conflict would ...