The idea of “red states” and “blue states” may feel deeply embedded in the symbolism of US politics, but before 2000 the ...

Dr. Brian Steel Wills, an award-winning author of American Civil War History, will be presenting "The Logic of Logistics: ...

One of the stranger legends surrounding the controversial Confederate general Stonewall Jackson is the fact that Jackson's ...

The Army had started work to remove the memorial ... one for each of the 11 Confederate states and the border states of Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. Thirty-two life-sized figures depict ...

A Confederate monument that was removed from a courthouse square in Mississippi will stay in storage while a lawsuit over its ...

Commanding said Army, to Lieut. Genl. U. S. Grant, Commanding Armies of United States, do hereby give our solemn parole of honor that we will not hereafter serve in the armies of the Confederate ...

By the end of the war more than 186,000 black soldiers had joined the Union army; 93,000 from the Confederate states, 40,000 from the border slave states, and 53,000 from the free states.

The United States put into uniform over 16 million ... including then-Camp Rucker, named in honor of Confederate Army Colonel Edmund W. Rucker. The base was redesignated Fort Novosel in 2023 ...

The peak became known as Clingmans Dome following an 1859 survey by geographer Arnold Guyot, who named it for Thomas Lanier ...

A Mississippi town has taken down a Confederate monument that stood since 1910. The figure was wrapped in tarps the past four ...

The origins of voting outside the polling place in the U.S. date back to 1813.

In 1823, two boys were born in Munfordville, about 40 miles north of Bowling Green in Hart County. The boys would grow up ...