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

James Carville wants the Democratic Party of old to return. But David Hogg, vice chairman of the Democratic National ...

A conversation with legal historian Mary Ziegler on her new book about the anti-abortion movement’s fight to establish ...

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

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

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.

Since Trump took office, the park service, an agency charged with preserving American history, has changed how its website ...

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