Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen service members. But it’s come to anchor the unofficial ...

It’s easy and logical to conclude that the United States today stands as close to the edge of civil war as it ... race theory at a South Carolina rally this spring, said America’s fate ...

On July 18, 1863, one of the first all-Black army regiments to serve in the Civil War stormed Fort Wagner in South Carolina .

The Civil War between the United States and the Confederacy ... The Confederacy had exhausted its resources, and the landscape of the American South was destroyed. They could no longer stand ...

President Grant gave the pen he used to sign the 15th Amendment to a fellow Civil War veteran ... to redistribute land to black laborers in the South, he left no doubt of his extreme solicitude ...

The largest pre-Civil War mansion in all of the American South burned to the ground as a devastating fire ripped through the historic wooden structure built nearly 200 years ago. Flames broke out ...

Some of the memorials are highly visible and a point of pride. One has seemingly been forgotten and needs attention.

After the Civil ... war, of a free, black settlement, named for the hated Union, made a dramatic claim to equality and liberty. The passionate man labeled as the “most influential African ...

The American Civil ... The story of the Civil War is all about division within one’s own country. But the schisms ran deeper than just North against South—there were also cracks within the ...

Essays on the Effects of the Civil War on the South in the Post Bellum Era. Some of the papers will prove primarily of interest to academic scholars, dealing with questions of influences on his ...