On New Year’s Day 1863, the Confederacy managed to break the Union blockade choking its ports by capturing Galveston, Texas.

After the carnage of the American Civil War, the country was still left with the difficult task of Reconstruction. But the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump stands with Secretary of Education Linda McMahon after signing an executive order to reduce the ...

The commission tasked with reviewing Confederate-inspired names of military assets has recommended in its final report to Congress that the Defense Department rename or remove hundreds of items. In ...

In an unusual trial, the N.A.A.C.P. has sought to show a school board’s “racist intent” by proving that the names of Robert E ...

On this day in 1861, delegates from six states that had seceded from the Union met in Montgomery, Ala., to establish a unified government, which they named the Confederate States of America. Five days ...

Editor’s Note: Gordon Rhea is an attorney based in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, and an author of books on the history of the Civil War. He has lectured on military history at the U.S. Army Training ...

I think what’s been lost to history is the fact that the Union was not, in the war’s early years, wholly united around the war effort. The public’s enthusiasm was not helped along by setback after ...

FILE - A carving depicting Confederate Civil War figures Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, is seen in Stone Mountain, Ga., June 23, 2015. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File) STONE ...

As a national debate rages over the symbolism of the Confederate flag, some critics of the Clintons have questioned why as governor of Arkansas Bill Clinton approved a state flag design that carried a ...

Euan Hague is co-editor, with Edward H. Sebesta (who provided additional research for this article) and Heidi Beirich, of Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction (University of Texas, 2008) and is ...

A Confederacy of Dunces has been called a love letter to New Orleans and hailed as a modern comedic classic. Now, a new cookbook looks at the food and culture that help define the characters in the ...