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

A new play brings into high relief the uncanny parallels between both the Revolutionary and Civil War periods and the ...

With Louisiana’s militias off fighting in Virginia and Tennessee, the job of defending the Crescent City fell to two forts ...

Opinion: Judge Nancy Gertner, David L. Faigman, and Erwin Chemerinsky warn Donald Trump targeting his enemies in blue states ...

The Richmond convention that debated secession leaned strongly ... More than five months after South Carolina became the first state to depart the Union, Virginia followed. As a result, the ...

Strom Thurmond of South Carolina as its presidential candidate. The States' Rights Party avoided outright race baiting, but everyone understood that it was motivated by more than abstract ...

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous poem “Paul Revere’s Ride,” taught in classrooms across the United States for over a ...

The Army is restoring the name Fort Benning to its storied training post in Georgia, only this time to honor an 18-year-old ...

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 ...

Meanwhile, the American Civil War officially began on this day in 1861 when Confederate forces opened fire on Fort Sumter, a federal stronghold in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina ... the secession ...

Ten SC Methodist churches say they should be allowed to severe their connection to the national church amid disputes over ...