If I had to pick the one site of the Civil War for kids to see, it would have to be Gettysburg, the greatest land battle ever fought ... (though many soldiers went barefoot): a ten-pound gun ...

At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too slow to record ... could neither maneuver the rough terrain nor record images in the midst of battle. So newspaper publishers hired amateur ...

After watching excerpts from the episodes Chandler Tintype and Civil War Letters, each of which looks at how blacks were involved on both sides in the fighting of the Civil War, students engage in ...