Civil War: A Nation Divided
From Antietam’s cornfield to Appomattox’s quiet, the war that broke the country and the freedom struggle that rebuilt it — battlefields, safe houses, home fronts, and Reconstruction’s first light.
13 narrated stories — read them here, or hear them all in the app.
Antietam National Battlefield
The Day Antietam Changed the War
A battlefield of staggering loss became the opening for emancipation.
Adams County
Three Days That Closed on Cemetery Ridge
How the fighting moved through Gettysburg and ended in Union victory.
Gettysburg National Cemetery
Where Gettysburg Buried the Dead and Found Its Words
How a battlefield cemetery became the stage for Lincoln’s defining remarks.
Appomattox County
When the Guns Fell Quiet at Appomattox
How sound, restraint, and relief shaped the Army of the Potomac’s final days.
Genesee County
From Tonawanda to Appomattox
A Seneca engineer’s unlikely path to the Civil War’s closing scene.
Calhoun County
From Battle Creek to the Union Cause
How Sojourner Truth made a Michigan town part of the Civil War story.
Wayne County
The House That Kept the Record
How Levi Coffin’s Newport home became a documented refuge on the Underground Railroad.
Merchant's House Museum
When War Entered the Tredwells’ Parlor
A Civil War home-front story inside a Manhattan family house.
Winston County
Why Winston Became Alabama’s “Free State”
A hill county’s stubborn Unionism during the Civil War.
Historic Mitchelville Freedom Park
Freedom, Drawn Into Streets
How wartime planning helped turn emancipation into community on Hilton Head.
Fourth Ward
Where Freedom Was Laid in Brick
How Freedmen's Town turned emancipation into a self-built community.
Talladega College
A School Raised in Freedom’s First Light
How freedpeople and allies built Talladega College after the Civil War.
Bibb County
A Tailor’s Warning in Reconstruction Georgia
From enslavement to Congress, Jefferson Franklin Long spoke when Georgia’s future was at stake.
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