As the transatlantic alliance falters, a major exhibition of U.S. photography offers Europeans a dizzying array of ...

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of George D. Pratt. The Smithsonian Institution came of age in the era of Manif ...

So successful was the Lost Cause propaganda campaign that most Americans forgot the true meaning of the Civil War.

What we think of today as the Confederate flag remains a symbol of white supremacy and antigovernment ideology.

On April 15, 1865, the Civil War had just ended, the 16th U.S. president had been killed. How would Americans respond?

Four of the bloodiest years in American history begin when Confederate shore batteries under General Pierre G.T. Beauregard open fire on Union-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor on ...

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No other aspect of the American Revolution is as useful a metaphor for people all along the political spectrum.

The president’s iconic beard was a product of the anxious new realities of the photographic age.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, will be a top lot for bidders at an Ohio auction house this ...