An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Elsewhere in the country, parts of the rebel army ...

Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second ...

Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount in Franklin County, Virginia.

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is being punished by his party for not causing a government shutdown.

The U.S. Mint’s American Women Quarters Program, running from 2022 through 2025, celebrates the trailblazing contributions of ...

The rights of Americans to self-determine how to educate their children — a hotly contested matter that stretches back to at ...

Richard Kreitner's "Fear No Pharoah" gives an honest account of how Jews resisted, ignored and even championed American ...