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History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...
This controversial April holiday is recognized in Alabama as a state holiday. What is it and when is it celebrated?
Join us as we step back into history at a Civil War Confederate camp alongside dedicated reenactors from the 48th Alabama ...
We’re taught in school that the American Civil ... in Confederate Secretary of War John Breckinridge the next day and worked out a generous plan that would allow the rebellious states to keep ...
A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, will be a top ...
The Jessamine County Courthouse lawn is home to a one-of-a-kind Confederate Civil War monument ... cap' Kentucky was a border state during the Civil War and at the time, Jessamine County residents ...
The debate over Confederate memorials centers on whether ... went up between the 1890s and 1950s, long after the Civil War ended, during the era of Jim Crow segregation when white supremacists ...
An enormous cache of recently discovered Civil War letters and other 19th century documents has been donated to Virginia Tech by a descendant of a Confederate general who later played a key role ...
During the American Civil War, Toronto was the city used by both ... they made it the headquarters of the Confederate Secret Service, seeing over 100 Southerners renting out the entire hotel.
The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...