Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

Around 350 junior high students spent the day rotating through nine different stations, where they learned about everything ...

So successful was the Lost Cause propaganda campaign that most Americans forgot the true meaning of the Civil War.

Thousands of volunteers work to decode handwritten records from America's past. The National Archives program includes ...

We are starting a new Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the history of the American Civil War. In ...

Florida legally observes Confederate Memorial Day, along with the birthdays of Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, but these ...

What we think of today as the Confederate flag remains a symbol of white supremacy and antigovernment ideology.

In this guest column, former New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial argues that the Trump administration's actions related to museums ...

A.J. Schenkman’s plate always seems to be full. Not only is he a seventh-grade social studies teacher at John G. Borden ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

Twelve days after President Lincoln's historic visit to Richmond, his assassin's journey ended in the small town of Port ...

The report tracks both the protection and removal of Confederate memorials located in public spaces, schools, street names ...