They searched for Civil War artifacts. What they found was older and rarer.

Relic hunters scouring a farm field south of Fredericksburg, Virginia, were turning up the usual Civil War artifacts when their metal detectors hit something strange. Eleven little buttons emerged ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Civil War

Here’s how three French idealists—an abolitionist, a sculptor and the engineer behind the Eiffel Tower—brought the ...

Civil war tore this country apart. But two men’s words still unite us, more than 160 years later

The words of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln remind us: The joy of being an American also carries the pang of ...
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Civil War’s ending, explained

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Civil War. Alex Garland’s newest film Civil War picks up at the height of a modern-day civil war taking place in America. But much like Garland’s other hits ...
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This Town Was the Site of the Civil War’s Bloodiest Battle—and It’s One of the Best Places to Visit for America’s 250th

This is one of the country's most important destinations.
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The First ‘Civil War’ Reviews Are Blown Away By Alex Garland’s Shockingly Real War Movie That’s Nothing Like You’d Expect

When the first trailer dropped for Civil War, the latest film from Ex Machina and Men director Alex Garland, there were a lot of jokes about the seemingly ridiculous premise that California and Texas ...