Paranoid about losing their majority status and the power it confers, white Americans keep backing Trump’s racist ...

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.

Leaders of state humanities councils throughout the country say federal funding cuts by President Donald Trump's ...

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

Because there were so many of these paranormal reports happening, the church was actually featured in the Ghost Hunters ...

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

The Smithsonian represents a pinnacle of official US efforts to represent pasts that are painful and violent as well as beautiful and accomplished.

Lee’s surrender at Appomattox—dramatically illustrates the dangers of letting myth substitute for accurate history. For generations, Americans learned the same basic story about the end of the Civil ...

April 9, the day that the American Civil War ended in 1865, should be a national holiday celebrating the defeat of the Confederacy, the end of slavery, and the triumph of liberty.

Margaret Mitchell was born in 1900, a quarter century after the beginning and subsequently abrupt end of Reconstruction.

This month sees the official launch of the Revolutionary War commemorations — the beginning of a year-and-a-half-long ...

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