The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

In the American Civil war there were units on both sides which had uniforms heavily influenced by their individual heritage, fashion crazes or special requirements.

Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

“Freedom” is a word Americans like to use to define their national identity. But what exactly is freedom and to whom is it ...

Settling landmark lawsuits, jettisoning "loser" anchors, shoveling out millions for vanity productions nobody (but Trump) ...

The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy.

The government is larger today than it was back then, so there was less interest on the part of the oligarchs of the day to ...

The widespread political purges of the early 1950s echo clearly today. Seventy years ago, the reasonable pretext of hunting ...

One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

Born enslaved in 1818, by the time of the Civil War Frederick Douglass was famous around the United States and Europe for his work in the abolition movement. So how did this famous orator learn his ...

Trump regime's purges of bureaucrats and educators over issues like diversity offer scary similarities to China's 1960s ...