Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

So successful was the Lost Cause propaganda campaign that most Americans forgot the true meaning of the Civil War.

Richard Kreitner’s deeply researched book about the Civil War era illuminates the lives of six Jewish Americans and their ...

U.S. Supreme Court to hear case on revoking birthright citizenship, potentially changing the balance of power and fundamental ...

South Carolina is one of only four states to observe the day as a state holiday, celebrating the lives of soldiers who fought ...

Sgt. William Carney, whose Civil War heroism was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie "Glory," will get his own comic ...

William Harvey Carney actions amid some of the most intense combat of the Civil War would earn him the respect of his fellow ...

Florida legally observes Confederate Memorial Day, along with the birthdays of Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, but these ...

What we think of today as the Confederate flag remains a symbol of white supremacy and antigovernment ideology.

Georgetown University’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies (CSSL), which researches the history of enslavement, ...