Seen in their entirety for the first time, Emma Mordecai's US Civil War writings paint a seemingly contradictory picture of ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last month ordered the change back to Fort Benning to honor Fred Benning, who was awarded the ...

across the 11 former Confederate states. When I first read Smalls’ speech while researching political violence in the years after the Civil War, I was stunned. Most estimates of postwar killings ...

The new exhibit includes 15 works by Kara Walker, featuring her signature silhouettes of Black people overlaid on large ...

The race predates the automobile and the airplane, radio and television, Edison’s light bulb and Einstein’s relativity. It is ...

Historian Benjamin Heber Johnson, reared in Houston, retells Texas history in a way that will appeal to a broad range of the state's readers.

But others say the name goes back further to Confederate Gen ... or capture of many runaway slaves at the beginning of the Civil War. A report by School Chief Operations Officer James Carroll ...

Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor. Less than 34 hours later, Union forces surrendered. The Civil War ...

The late political scientist enjoined readers to look for opposition to authoritarian states not in revolutionary vanguards ...

A blast-injury expert takes aim at the mystery of what sank the most famous—and lethal—submarine of the Civil War Rachel Lance ... Union blockade of Confederate shipping.

The conventional wisdom in Washington holds that President Donald Trump’s November victory, combined with the whirlwind of ...