The U.S. Colored Troops were among the first to arrive in Texas to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation—yet their story has ...

Editor’s Note: Peniel E. Joseph is the Barbara Jordan Chair in ethics and political values and the founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the LBJ School of Public ...

Dynasties that once reigned supreme in the antebellum South, amassing fortunes from enslaved labor and vast plantations, ...

Did the Civil War bring down the South's wealthiest families? In 1865, the elite faced a reckoning as empires built on ...

Michael Lally, an immigrant to Massachusetts from Ireland, fought for the Union in more than a dozen major battles of the Civil War, including the first and second Bull Run (Manassas), the Siege of ...

1865 stands as an undeniable turning point throughout American history. It marks the end of the Civil War, and also the beginning of a long and complicated road toward national healing. It was ...

Those in the media sounding the alarm about civil unrest are right to be worried, but popular explorations of the term “civil war” don’t go far enough. Abraham Lincoln at Antietam during the Civil War ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Civil War: 1865 After Columbia and Charleston, South Carolina, fell to the Union, in early 1865, Jefferson Davis belatedly handed over the supreme command ...