In this interview, Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina discusses the connection he sees between today’s politics and the ...

The second novel following Nathan Harris' bestselling "The Sweetness of Water," the story follows siblings emancipated from ...

Over 60 delegations are meeting in Brussels on Thursday to discuss reconstruction, governance and security in the war-ravaged ...

This video looks at what became of the Confederates after the Civil War ended in 1865. From the surrender at Appomattox to ...

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, welcoming the participants of the 27th National Security Workshop, representing Pakistan's future strategic leadership, was of great significance, stated that ...

Territorial Colorado was still years away from statehood and had only about 34,000 citizens when the American Civil War tore ...

The African American Civil War Memorial Museum (AACWM) held its annual Reading of the Names on Nov. 11, honoring more than 200,000 United States Colored Troops. While the event marked a major moment ...

Abolitionists used hard facts to counter pro-slavery propaganda, forcing indifferent Americans to face ugly realities.

She had, indeed, in a sense, three brothers in the Confederacy, but they were half-brothers, with whom she had had little to do, and anyway the Civil War was notoriously a great divider of the border ...

Perhaps your history teachers failed to alert you to these Civil War facts: Jefferson Davis nearly got mugged by an angry female mob; Abraham Lincoln loved the Confederate anthem "Dixie," and Paul ...

On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful 272-word speech, later known as the Gettysburg Address, dedicating a new cemetery on the site of the bloody Civil War battlefield.