The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 was a pivotal moment in American history, leading to Southern secession and the Civil ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Between the winter of 1860 and the ...

Between the winter of 1860 and the spring of 1861, eleven Southern states broke away from the United States to form a new country, the Confederate States of America (CSA). As a fledgling nation, the ...

The Trump administration has restored a memorial to a Confederate general in Washington, D.C. that demonstrators took down ...

A new show featuring decommissioned statues dispels myths of American history at a moment when President Trump is insisting ...

Almost 2,100 symbols celebrating the Confederacy remain in the United States, and the pace of removal has slowed down, according to the “Whose Heritage” report published by the Southern Poverty Law ...

Statues of Christopher Columbus have also been targeted. After years of civil rights activists calling for the removal of Confederate monuments, they're falling like dominoes amid nationwide protests ...