Henry Wirz remains one of the most controversial figures of the Civil War. As commandant of Andersonville Prison, he oversaw ...

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

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

Today’s episode will focus on one of the biggest – and most important – turning points in world history; the Battle of ...

After the Civil War, 18 veterans of the United ... served as an admiral in the Confederate navy. The presence, after the war, of a free, black settlement, named for the hated Union, made a ...

Lee’s surrender at Appomattox—dramatically illustrates the dangers of letting myth substitute for accurate history. For ...

The city witnessed a bitter controversy over the removal of a Confederate statue in Travis Park in 2017. It's been in storage at an undisclosed site ever since.

The statue of Captain John O’Donnell, an 18th century merchant who enslaved dozens of Black people on his Maryland plantation ...

Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...

An American Civil War monument on the Jessamine County Courthouse ... Remarkably, that divide is not why the statue wears a Confederate buckle, sports a Union hat and still exists in a place ...

What the hell does Donbas have to do with the American Civil War? Why would Russian ... Even before the war in Donbas, the Confederate flag had a niche following in certain Russian circles.

SYLVA, N.C. (WLOS) — Four years ago, a plaque with more inclusive language was added to the Confederate soldier statute in ...