The American Civil War (1861–1865) remains one of the most defining chapters in the nation’s past, forging our modern identity through tumultuous battles and ...

Virginia took another decisive step in its ongoing reckoning with its Confederate past as the House of Delegates in a ...

America must take a look at the ongoing racial violence and the monuments we build in service or resistance to it.

Gen. Rufus Saxton wrote that he bore “witness to the value of her services… She was employed in the Hospitals and as a spy [and] made many a raid inside the enemy’s lines displaying remarkable courage ...

The Battle of Gettysburg, too, was explicitly a family affair. Many families sent soldiers who fought on opposite sides, ...

Every year, the state of Florida observes the birth of Confederate General Robert E. Lee as an official state holiday.

Reconstruction, the textbooks say, was the transformative period immediately after the Civil War, from roughly 1865 to 1877, ...

“Fort fisher was essentially America’s largest sand castle ever built,” Steele said. ”Construction began around early in 1861 ...

The base is a work of art for its time, the stone carver depicting ... has partnered with the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War to raise $15,000 for the Reynolds Restoration Project.

Jiménez, a prominent civil rights and liberation movement figure died at the ... shows how members of the Black Panther Party organized Puerto Rican radicals and Confederate flag-waving white ...

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Gary Ross’ ‘Free State of Jones’ is a dramatization of a revolt during the American Civil War, led by Newton Knight (Matthew McConaughey). He deserted his Confederate troops after the Second Battle of ...