On New Year’s Day 1863, the Confederacy managed to break the Union blockade choking its ports by capturing Galveston, Texas.

A strong push to remove the Confederate battle flag from Capitol grounds in South Carolina and Alabama — as well as the shelves of major retailers — was sparked by the racially motivated killings of ...

President Donald Trump recently told his administration to restore monuments that were previously removed due to their ...

Bruce Levine is the J. G. Randall Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Illinois. He has published four books on the era of the Civil War, most recently The Fall of the House of ...

Provisions to reverse the Pentagon’s revival of Confederate-era names on Army bases were stripped from the defense ...

The tragedy in Charleston has revived the movement to take the Confederate battle flag from the South Carolina statehouse grounds. On Monday June 22—five days after the shooting in the AME Emanuel ...

Two Confederate groups involved in Cecil County’s Dec. 6 Christmas Parade are pushing back against criticism over their display and distribution of Confederate flags during the event, questioning why ...

In July 1944, one month after the Allies stormed the beaches of Normandy, the 79th Infantry Division drove Nazi troops out of the French town La Haye-du-Puits. A young officer from Chattanooga, ...

The CSS “Shenandoah” only learned of the Confederacy’s defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser’s crew sank 24 American merchant vessels, unaware that the conflict had already ended ...

After 73 Confederate monuments were removed or renamed in 2021, there are now 723 left in the US, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. The findings were announced Tuesday during the group’s ...