This week marks the anniversary of the greatest battle in the United States’ Civil War. That battle, at Gettysburg, was ...

What started as an effort to promote racial unity in Edenton by reconsidering its most prominent downtown symbol has done the ...

Florida was the smallest of the 11 Confederate states, with 140,000 residents, 60,000 of them slaves. About 15,000 Floridians fought, the largest percentage of any southern state.

They say the older you get, you either become someone who smokes meat or someone who gets into the Civil War. Well, I feel like I'm more of a WWII guy, but I've been known to dabble in America's ...

There might not be a lot of mystery surrounding how the Civil War turned out when it ended in April 1865. In the simplest of oversimplified nutshells: * The Union defeated the Confederacy. * The ...

Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861, by Robert W. Merry.Simon & Schuster, 528 pages. With Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South ...

As the civil war enters its third year, Sudan’s two warring factions remain locked in a deadly power struggle. Death toll estimates vary widely, with the former U.S. envoy for Sudan suggesting ...

My purpose is to encourage you to be extra vigilant in guarding against Trump’s further use of these three pretexts to erode ...

Yes, the 11 Southern states that made up the Confederacy during the Civil War seceded from the U.S. following the election of Abraham Lincoln, who was against slavery.

Yes, the 11 Southern states that made up the Confederacy during the Civil War seceded from the U.S. following the election of Abraham Lincoln, who was against slavery.

Like other southern states, Florida added Confederate Memorial Day as an official holiday in 1895, along with Gen. Lee’s birthday, according to Jacksonville.com. Today, the sunshine state ...

Elizabeth Van Lew, a Southern belle turned Union spymaster, exemplifies true heroism during the Civil War, challenging the diluted modern concept of a hero.