Some of the memorials to the Confederacy and its leaders found in metro Atlanta's public (and some private) spaces ...

"The Atlanta washerwomen strike was one of the first and largest successful labor strikes of the post-Civil War era," explains Smith. "African-American laundresses who were fed up with being ...

Pvt. Lucien Weakley’s weathered headstone stands beneath a towering magnolia tree that is surrounded by the graves of thousands of other Confederate soldiers in Atlanta’s Oakland Cemetery.

Hess has produced once again an excellent history of a Civil War battle ... or turning point of the Atlanta Campaign is incorrect. Besides his usual tour-de-force of the battle narrative, Hess devotes ...

Atlanta, and the Shenandoah Valley tilt the election to Lincoln and the Confederacy's last hope for independence dies. In an ironic twist, poignantly typical of the Civil War, Lee's Arlington ...