When Karen Hostetter began planning a Civil War program for kids, she wanted to portray a realistic picture of the war. As the youth services program coordinator at Dover Area Community Library ...

Carolyn Reeder is giving readers a kid's-eye view of the Civil War. Her books include "Shades of Gray" and "Captain Kate." People in the North were worried about the way the war was going. They ...

When war broke out in 1861, kids across the North and the South said goodbye to their fathers, brothers, uncles, and cousins — or joined the military themselves.

Frank Thompson wasn't your ordinary Civil War soldier. For starters, Frank was extraordinarily versatile, serving as a nurse, mail carrier and a spy. By all accounts, Frank was unusually brave.

University of Richmond professor Lauranett Lee discussed how children were affected during the Civil War era and compared this history to the continuing twenty-first century problem of war ...

Imagine this. It’s October 1861, and Union soldiers are camped 35 miles upstream from Washington along the Potomac River’s Maryland shore and on Harrison’s Island. They are on picket duty ...

Civil War Tech, made possible by support from AT&T, is meant for children ages 8 to 12. It melds science, technology, engineering and mathematics education with history.

Children of Civil War Veterans Still Walk Among Us, 150 Years After the War To their living sons and daughters, the soldiers in blue and gray are flesh and blood, not distant figures in history books.

picture the dream: the story of the civil rights movement through children’s books At the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, 125 West Bay Road, Amherst. Through July 3.

When war broke out in 1861, kids across the North and the South said goodbye to their fathers, brothers, uncles, and cousins -- or joined the military themselves. As many as 20% of Civil War ...