In the last months of his life, serious doubts were raised about the alleged soldier's age and the claim that he fought in ...

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged southern states. The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many ...

a Union retreat and the start of the Civil War. Exhibits at Fort Sumter help explain the tensions that led South Carolina to be the first state to secede the union. Visitors can also see the flag ...

Regarded as the war’s finest general, Robert E. Lee was a master of the organization of war. The country’s most experienced general in 1861, he declined President Lincoln’s offer to head the ...

Only hours after Donald Trump was elected president, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement put gears in motion to ...

How could Americans be such nice and decent people and support someone so debasing, so deranged, so hate-filled? It was the ...

Confederate monuments continue to spark controversy. Over 2,000 Confederate memorials are still in place across the country, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. During the 2020 boiling ...

Donald Trump and his team are planning to use the Justice Department to enact every bullet point on his gruesome agenda.

The ship’s pilot helped his family reach freedom, then served in the Civil War and in the U.S. Congress. Robert Smalls’s ...

DECADE OF DISUNION: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War. By Robert W. Merry. Simon and Schuster ...

After the Civil War, in 1866, the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.), a fraternal organization of veterans of the American ...