COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The Confederate battle flag no longer flies at South Carolina’s Statehouse, now relegated to a room filled with other relics of the state’s secession. Other vestiges of the Civil ...

The 1860 presidential election, which saw Abraham Lincoln win without Southern support, intensified divisions over slavery and states' rights, leading to Southern secession and the American Civil War.

Relatively few people are aware that during the Civil War, Confederate leaders put forth a proposal to arm slaves to fight against the Union in exchange for their freedom. In his new book Confederate ...

Hundreds of Civil War relics were unearthed during the cleanup of a South Carolina river where Union troops dumped Confederate military equipment to deliver a demoralizing blow for rebel forces in the ...

A festival celebrating the Confederacy is celebrated annually in rural Sao Paulo in Brazil. It's held in a town where Confederate supporters fled after the Civil War and founded a slave-owning colony.

It’s that time of year again, when we are all reminded that the state of South Carolina and eight of the state’s 46 counties actually close government offices and give non-essential employees a day ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. – South Carolina’s governor relegated the Confederate flag to the state’s “relic room” Thursday, more than 50 years after the rebel banner began flying at the Statehouse to protest the ...

CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski dug up a potentially problematic interview in which former South Carolina Governor and Trump UN Ambassador Nikki Haley defended Confederate History Month, said the Civil War was ...

For the first time since the civil rights movement, the Confederate battle flag was removed entirely from the South Carolina Statehouse, in a swift ceremony Friday before thousands of people who ...

We’re taught in school that the American Civil War ended when Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865 — 160 years ago Wednesday. In fact, reality was ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (Reuters) - More and more voices across the U.S. South called for banishing the banner of the pro-slavery Confederacy on Wednesday in a fast-growing movement that adds new emotion and ...

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