The flag icon has been used on government sites since 2017, said a spokesperson for the General Services Association, which guides federal website standards. The flag had only nine stars because of ...

In the late summer of 1865, a few months after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union forces at Appomattox Court House, Representative Thaddeus Stevens received a surprising but surely ...

Most Americans think of Abraham Lincoln in hagiographic terms, the man who “saved” the United States from destruction. A ...

Students who left to fight for the Union and alumni who did so ... it included names of people who served the Confederate government, not just the military. The new plaque includes anyone who served ...

The American flag has 50 stars representing the country’s 50 states. However, since February 3, the internet has discovered that major U.S.

“When the unveiling of the monument is used as an opportunity to justify the southern people in rebelling against the U.S. government and to flaunt the Confederate flag in the faces of the loyal ...

The quick advance of Union troops on General Lee's unsuspecting army is an essential part of Burnside's strategy; the two-week delay gives the Confederate soldiers plenty of time to prepare for ...

Hospitals routinely took both Union and Confederate wounded. In the larger battles of the war the casualties were staggering: Antietam 22,717; Shiloh 23,746; Spotsylvania 30,000; Chickamauga ...