Weird Universe introduces us to the works of John...  ...merican professional soldier during and after the Civil War . He was a prolific writer throughout his career a...  ...peoples that he encountered in the United States' wars against them.In 1891, he compiled his own observa...

Around 620,000 soldiers died in the US Civil War , but that toll would have been higher if surgeons...  ...rom wounds to malaria to stomach aches. After the war , many of these men went home addicted to painkill...  ...been taking opioids. Read about opiate use in the Civil War...

Books become famously influential in different way...  ...indeed books that fueled America's Revolutionary War , feminism, civil rights, environmental regulations, the Communist...

We often read about teenagers who lied about their...  ...their ages in order to serve their country during war . But this story is about an old man who lied abou...  ...t older people with specialized knowledge for the war effort, but they are rarely put on the front line...  ...tizen who enlisted in the Union...

The 2002 movie Gangs of New York was a strange fil...  ...ddressed what was going on in the city during the Civil War . Weird History looks at the Five Points neighborh...

In 1861, 25-year-old Samuel Clemens answered the c...  ...author’s two-week stint as a soldier in the Civil War largely amounted to him larping as a Confederate....

The 14th Amendment to the US Constitution was rati...  ...itizenship for formerly enslaved people after the Civil War . Political leaders argued over whether it covered...

Embed from Getty ImagesThe 1939 film Gone With t...  ...p opera about one Georgia woman's life during the Civil War , based on the best-selling novel by Margaret Mitc...  ...ve generations of viewers a distorted idea of the Civil War era South. The movie was shaped by many scenes th...

Neal V. Loving was born in 1916 and grew up with a...  ...was only 20 years old. When the US entered World War II, Loving founded a Black unit of the Civil Air Patrol and trained pilots himself. In 1944, a...

It has been estimated that up to 10% of the Union...  ...made up of volunteers below the age of 18 in the Civil War . Boys as young as 14 would sign up by lying about...  ...ement varied on both sides over the course of the war . Both armies were considerate of the tender age o...  ...he tender age of these sold...