If the justices take up a case on Virginia’s felon disenfranchisement law, they’ll be burrowing back to Reconstruction-era ...

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

Richmond Auctions in Greenville will host its two-day Spring Premier Firearms & Sportsman Advertising Auction on April 25 and April 26. The auction will showcase historically significant artifacts ...

NATO member Denmark has announced it will send soldiers to Ukraine. Despite the nonviolent nature of their deployment, Russia ...

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

When the National Park Service rewrote the Underground Railroad's story, it pulled Cincinnati's Freedom Center into Trump's ...

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 ...

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

More than a dozen Confederate monuments taken down in Maryland as a result of protests won’t have to be reinstalled, despite President Donald Trump’s executive order.

Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor. Less than 34 hours later, Union forces surrendered. The Civil War ...

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

has acquired its own special swashbuckling aura since the American Civil War, when a Union boat armed with spar torpedoes ...