The annual gathering traditionally draws thousands of spectators and hundreds of re-enactors from several states helping tell ...

Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

A 90-minute walking tour details the city’s role in promoting slavery throughout the South and the driving force of faith to survive and triumph over it.

The Cape Fear's most famous Civil War battle took place at Fort Fisher in January of 1865. But another important battle was fought miles away on the grounds of the present Day Cameron Art Museum.

Initially named after Southern Gen. Braxton Bragg, the post was stripped of the name in 2023 amid a drive to remove symbols ...

A U.S. Army base originally named after a Confederate general, then renamed Fort Liberty, will revert to the name Fort Bragg.

Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl performance included a powerful reference to “40 acres and a mule,” a phrase deeply rooted in the ...

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

Roots and Realities will have its opening reception on Thursday, Feb. 6 at 6 p.m., featuring a conversation with Farris and ...

Invisible Eddie' opens Feb. 7 at College Park; Tabitha plans special Valentine's Day music bingo, and Hastings College will host a lecture focusing on Confederate monuments.

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Though traditional accolades escaped Tubman for most of her life, she did achieve an honor usually reserved for white officers on the Civil War battlefield. After she led a successful raid of a ...