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

While metal detecting a historic Civil War camp in Alabama, we made an incredible discovery — a buried fire pit filled with ...

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

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

Charlie Shelton-Ormond: total they were 1500 reenactors. It was actually mostly split even between Confederate and Union and 1500 is a large number, but that's actually nothing compared to the actual ...

Officially there is Ghanaian statutory law that prohibits civilians and foreign nationals from wearing military apparel such ...

Those involved in unleashed political fighting today should learn from this end-of-war, Easter season moment from York ...

These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops, made up one-tenth of the fighting forces for the Union Army ... Archives and the African American Civil War Museum in Washington, D.C. Once ...

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

From Vietcong diplomats to American anti-war activists, these women made their mark on one of the 20th century’s most ...

A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, will be a top ...