The American Civil War remains one of the most studied and debated periods in U.S. history, as well as our […] ...

The Civil War helped define America and names like Gettysburg, Antietam, Lincoln, Robert E Lee, and Ulysses S Grant are ...

Confederate myths are confronted as John Dunphy pushes back with facts ...

This photo in the Library of Congress shows the “remains of the wooden steamboat Celt wrecked along Bowman’s Jetty,” in Charleston Harbor, according to the SC Marine Researcher Division. The Celt is ...

The Confederacy’s theory of victory at the start of the Civil War was straightforward — so logical, the historian Emory M.

The backlash came from across the political spectrum. Historians, preservationists, local officials, and cultural critics ...

… [S]outhern Indians too were divided in their feelings toward the Confederacy…. By the winter of 1861–62, a full-blown civil war was under way among the Indians, adding a further dimension to ...

You probably didn’t see this coming … an African American southern heritage activist and former NAACP president was recently ...

Today Americans across the nation are celebrating Thanksgiving, most likely with a large, festive meal. There’s often turkey, ...

A joint exhibition hosted by The Brick, and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, places decommissioned Confederate monuments alongside works from contemporary artists.

The South Carolina Department of Education is set to unveil next year’s state African American history calendar.

As a national holiday, Thanksgiving originated as war propaganda. It was Abe Lincoln in November 1863 who made Thanksgiving a ...