The first military commander to oversee the occupation of New Orleans after the Civil War wasn't all good or all bad. But some things just stuck deeper in the collective memory.

There's a new effort to award the Congressional Gold Medal to 200,000 African Americans who served in the Union Army during ...

"Incidents of the war: A harvest of ... Estimated percentage of Civil War dead who were never identified 66 — Estimated percentage of dead African American Union soldiers who were never ...

The U.S. Congress is considering a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the 200,000 Black soldiers who fought to ...

Kings and Generals continues its animated historical documentary series on early modern history and the United States with a new series on the American Civil War. Previously, we explored the American ...

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