An actor plays Spanish-American Admiral David Farrugut, a hero in the Battle of Mobile Bay during the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

This week in our series, Steve Ember and Shirley Griffith describe the first days of the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

Some writers believe that the phrase would soon have disappeared were it not for the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

Just before sunrise on April twelfth, eighteen sixty-one, the first shot was fired in the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

This week in our series, Frank Oliver and Jack Weitzel continue the story of the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

This week in our series, Harry Monroe and Kay Gallant continue the story of the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

This week in our series, Stuart Spencer and Leo Scully continue the story of the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

In the eighteen sixties, during the American Civil War, Union soldiers won a battle on Roanoke Island.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

Her father,Arthur Keller, was a captain in the army of the South during the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

Then,as the American Civil War began, the Virginia state government voted to rebel against the United States.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

In the early weeks of eighteen sixty-three, the American Civil War took a new political direction.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

Copland's music included parts of American folk songs and songs popular during the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.06.21

Why did they become so famous? The story of these famous men began a little before the American Civil War of the eighteen sixties.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

Travel was impossible during the four year American Civil War that began in eighteen sixty-one.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

Someone who is deeply interested in the American Civil War is a Civil War buff.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

His father,Arthur MacArthur, was a hero of the American Civil War and continued to serve in the army after the war ended in eighteen sixty-five.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

The American Civil War in the eighteen sixties was fought not only on land.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

A huge military fort was built there before the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

Matthew Brady documented the American Civil War in pictures.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

Abraham Lincoln was the only president in American history to lead the nation during a civil war in the eighteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

Just before the Civil War, the Whig political party was making a last effort to remain a part of American political life.

VOA: special.2010.02.14

The civil war in Greece ended. American help for Greece and Turkey was the first step in what became known as the "Truman Doctrine."

VOA: special.2011.08.04

The real movement into the American West began after the Civil War.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

"Every time Americans debate the problem of states' rights, the relationship of federal power to state power -- which we are indeed having a roiling debate again -- and every time we debate not only race relations, but the very idea of what it means to be an American, multi-racial,greatly diverse society, we are debating the direct legacies of the Civil War."

VOA: special.2011.04.09