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

In this new episode of Kings and Generals’ Civil War series, we cover the Battle of Fredericksburg—one of the bloodiest and ...

Henry Wirz remains one of the most controversial figures of the Civil War. As commandant of Andersonville Prison, he oversaw a site where over 13,000 Union soldiers died. Convicted of war crimes and ...

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 ...

Generational Performance Solutions, formerly The YoPro Know, recently unveiled its new name, new brand and its vision for the ...

The name of Henry L. Benning, a former Georgia Supreme Court justice who vocally supported secession and served as a Confederate brigadier general in the Civil War, had adorned the base since it ...

As characters in American history go ... aim of employing free Black men and freedom seekers. (During the Civil War, Confederate General Jubal Early burned down Stevens’ forge en route to ...

This controversial April holiday is recognized in Alabama as a state holiday. What is it and when is it celebrated?

Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 19, 1775, British troops faced off against colonial militias in the Massachusetts ...

The Army is restoring the name Fort Benning to its storied training post in Georgia, only this time it will honor an ...

We need them speaking out on civil liberties, on the rights of immigrants and on the rights of universities." While Democrats are increasingly energized to resist Trump, a slew of national polls ...

One of the two people killed in Thursday’s shootings at Florida State University was the son of Ricardo “Monkey” Morales, a shadowy Cuban-American ... figure in Cold War-era espionage ...