Robert Smalls made headlines when he commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War. Library of Congress South Carolina plans to erect a statue honoring Robert Smalls, a man who escaped slavery ...

Trump ‘OK’ with DC statue honoring Civil War leader who fought for slavery: ‘Lot of people in this room’ agree - Trump’s ...

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Thursday addressed the backlash to her Wednesday night comments about what she thought was the cause of the American Civil War, during which she ...

What we need now are people willing to stand up — not to shout, but to remind us democracy works best when we talk with each other, not at each other ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. On March 27, 2025, in an executive order ...

The Trump administration ordered a famous Civil War-era war image removed from a National Park Service site in Georgia as it moves to promote what it considers a more positive view of American history ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by senior writer Benyamin Cohen. General Robert E ...

It shows a formerly enslaved man in Louisiana displaying whipping scars on his back during the Civil War. Made in May 1863 ...

An image from Harper’s Weekly depicts the ‘Grand procession of Wide-Awakes at New York on the evening of October 3, 1860.’ Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division There’s one question I ...

Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the U.S. right now and a totally different period of American history. Most ...