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 ...

At the time the Civil War began in 1861, the United States government did not print paper money; it only minted coins. As a historian of the American Civil War, I study how the Confederate government ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- From renaming Confederate Boulevard in Arkansas to shrinking "Heart of Dixie" on Alabama's license plate, the South is slowly erasing reminders of its Civil War past for fear of ...

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 ...

That fusion of Jewish biblical narrative and American destiny shaped the moral foundation of this country. Benjamin Franklin ...

The days of South Carolina having a statutory holiday to commemorate fallen Confederate soldiers may be numbered. South Carolina currently recognizes May 10 as Confederate Memorial Day, meaning state ...

Yes, Democrats are the new Confederates. First, before I define the evil that Democrats represent, let me start with an explanation. Understand I'm not talking about today's American South. I love the ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...