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

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

In 1946 there were still 16 survivors of the Civil War living in Texas, all of whom were more than 100 years old. They lived ...

Insights Some generals went on to become President of the United States.  All of the generals became well-known because of ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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

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

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 Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument was erected outside the Williamson County Courthouse in Georgetown in 1916.