Their immediate goal was to loot the town’s stores — stealing chickens, boots, hats, shoes, tobacco, biscuits, and whatever ...

One hundred sixty years ago, at Spotsylvania Courthouse, Ulysses S. Grant was looking for some kind of breakthrough against ...

South Carolina is one of only four states to observe the day as a state holiday, celebrating the lives of soldiers who fought ...

The Civil War began when the Confederates bombarded Union soldiers at Fort Sumter, South Carolina on April 12, 1861.

Some great TV shows use the American Civil War as a backdrop or as a major narrative pillar. Here are the best ones.

More than 160 years after Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, echoes of the Civil ...

April marked 160 years since the major combat operations of the Civil War ended. The major Confederate armies surrendered — ...

Unpacking the logic of from's National Garden of American Heroes honoring figures from Christopher Columbus to Whitney ...

That all changed when Charlotte was seven. Her father returned home from an exploratory trip to the frontier of Florida and ...

Along with Georgia, Mississippi recognizes Confederate Memorial Day, which Sen. Derrick Simmons calls "racist" and ...

Mississippi honors those who fought for the Confederacy against the United States in the Civil War. Who tried to drop the ...

The small plaque that stands in Elm Park marks a major contribution that Worcester made in the fight against chattel slavery.