The courtroom where Mary Surratt and 7 others were tried--then and now.

How did people in the mid-19th century take care of their teeth?

About 500,000 left slavery during the Civil War. As Chandra Manning's new book details, they took enormous risks in their search for freedom.

Julia Wilbur records what she felt and saw the day after Lincoln's assassination.

Clara Barton's Missing Soldiers Office was lost for decades. Here's how it was found.

Paragraph 6 of the Emancipation Proclamation ushered in a new era. Here's how.

At Signature Theatre in Arlington, high school students learn how century-old suffrage protests resonate today.

Abolitionists sought to "grab your wallet" through non-slave labor products like sorghum.

Julia Ward Howe & Julia Wilbur traveled in different circles--but they did connect at least once.

A few notes from Heroines of Mercy Street, by Pamela Toler.

The story behind 6 Mathew Brady photos of Civil War, Alexandria.

Well before Facebook and Twitter, 19th-century activists still connected and mobilized.

A month or so ago, I got a peek at episode #1 at a roundtable with the producer.

Staying warm took ingenuity--including a contraption called a Crimean Oven.

Charleston and Savannah, History and Food!

In 1861, Julia Wilbur celebrated Thanksiving quietly in New York State. The following year was a different story.

I took part in a November 19 ceremony to inaugurate a historical marker at the location of L'Ouverture Hospital in Alexandria.

I (and Julia Wilbur, in spirit) tagged along on a National Women's History Museum walking tour of Alexandria Civil War women.

The post-war connections between John Singleton Mosby and Ulysses S. Grant, according to a recent book by David Goetz.

Post-War reconciliation? Historian Caroline Janney offers a different view.