The 18 decommissioned Confederate monuments have been deconstructed and displayed to make a statement on the horrors of ...

There was no audible reaction to his claim from the dinner attendees, who included oil billionaire Harold Hamm, Blackstone ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lincoln led through crisis by aligning decisive action with a long horizon, turning the fight to save the Union into a moral ...

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 ...

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Two letter writers reflect on the fierce debate over illegal immigration, the National Guard, rule of law and pretext for a ...

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 ...