The final year of the Civil War exposed the Confederacy’s deepest weaknesses. Union forces seized critical cities, destroyed supply lines, and forced Confederate armies into constant retreat. Internal ...

For more than a century, this Black soldier from Virginia was remembered by nearly no one. Then this year, someone at the ...

An October conference examined the legacy of the Siege of Petersburg, a grim episode in America’s “great single tragic event.

In September 1862, more than 22,000 Americans fell during the Battle of Antietam in Sharpsburg, Maryland. Victory teetered ...

One Virginia representative accused the White House and GOP of politicizing the bill over the name changes and other ...

The Jewish people in America have long punched above their demographic weight. Consider how deprived our science, music, letters, film and law would be ...

Often overlooked, the French "Charleville" infantry musket was one of the most significant longarms of the 18th and 19th ...

Levy (1845): David Levy Yulee was one of the first senators of Florida when it became a state. He was also the first person ...

High Tower and God's Acre were Georgia's two 19th century boarding schools for Native Americans. Elias Boudinot, who signed New Echota Treaty, spent time at both.

This video explores the American Civil War through the lens of the Confederacy, revealing the motivations and anxieties that ...

On this week’s “More To The Story,” art historian Erin Thompson examines the ways societies build and destroy monuments—and ...

The backlash came from across the political spectrum. Historians, preservationists, local officials, and cultural critics accused Disney of trivializing slavery, glorifying war, and monetizing America ...