Soldiers and the Homefront

Where war has battered the American landscape, it has transformed the lives and land of the people along the way. Through violence, valiance, hope and despair, lives were changed forever. Some came home and told their stories, and some held the horrors they witnessed close to the vest. Civilians on the homefront, too, found their lives changed forever, as did Native Americans whose populations were decimated. But memory--and the official record--can sometimes drift in the fog of war.

The battlefield has its secrets, but archeologists know how to coax out the truth. Archeology documents where war took place, how it was carried out, and who it affected along the way. Explore how archeology imparts a richer truth to the story of American battlefields.