Confederate symbols, and their continued valorization, rob us of an opportunity to understand our own rich “people’s heritage ...

Set during the aftermath of the Civil War, Hell on Wheels trades ranches for railroads, and it’s got all the trademarks of a ...

While the march devastated plantations, railroads, and towns, civilian casualties were low, and it played a key role in hastening the end of the Civil War. Still, the operation remains one of the ...

Even in its earliest days, discord was part and parcel of American life. During the American Revolution, families were often divided between Patriots ...

Some of the memorials to the Confederacy and its leaders found in metro Atlanta's public (and some private) spaces ...

When the National Park Service rewrote the Underground Railroad's story, it pulled Cincinnati's Freedom Center into Trump's ...

Edward Otho C. Ord was a major general in the Union army during the Civil War and commanded the Department of Arkansas and the Fourth Military District during Reconstruction.

Residents remain divided over options for a trail that either replaces or co-exists with a 49-mile stretch of unused railroad ...

To fill in the gaps in Nelson Shephard’s biography, Lynch enlisted the help of Steve Kochersperger, a USPS research analyst with a personal stake in the Civil War. An ancestor, Lt. Col.

A century ago, the mayor of Emden in Logan County was an 82-year-old Civil War veteran who survived a stint in Georgia's notorious Andersonville prison. This local history and more: ...