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 ...

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.

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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 ...

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 ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Long a symbol of pride to some and hatred to others, the Confederate battle flag is losing its place of official prominence 155 years after rebellious Southern states lost a ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The Confederate flag has been removed from the grounds of the South Carolina Statehouse, a move that many were uncertain would ever come. Here’s a look at the history of the flag ...

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

Mark M. Smith is affiliated with Justice 360. I served as an expert witness for the organization and submitted an affidavit in a case heard by the SC Supreme Court. Americans have an appetite for ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a trove of Civil War weapons from South Carolina’s Congaree River. Cannonballs, artillery shells and other items have been lurking in the waterway since February 1865, ...

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 ...