More than 2,000 Confederate symbols are still standing in public spaces across the U.S., according to a report released ...

Cameron McWhirter covers national affairs for The Wall Street Journal from Atlanta. Before joining the Journal, he reported for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution from 2003 to 2010. Previously, he ...

Despite efforts to rewrite history, activists are still pushing to remove Confederate symbols, a new Southern Poverty Law ...

Sgt. William Carney, whose Civil War heroism was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie "Glory," will get his own comic ...

Confederate Memorial Day is an official holiday in several states. Why is it celebrated, and where? Does New Jersey take part ...

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.

One speaker, Frank Smith, Jr., is the founding director of the African American Civil War Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

We are starting a new Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the history of the American Civil War. In ...

A Charleston, South Carolina surrender flag, Confederate documents, and Union soldier items among historic Civil War ...

Years later, in 1869, Grant became a U.S. president like his former Commander-in-Chief Lincoln had done, setting a precedent ...

In 2018, the operator of Wrightsville’s Mount Pisgah Cemetery Facebook page noted that the cemetery was in desperate need of maintenance and repairs.