South Carolina is one of only four states to observe the day as a state holiday, celebrating the lives of soldiers who fought ...

Abraham Lincoln's funeral train traveled through Ohio, including Champaign County, in late April 1865, making stops at many ...

This year, 2025, commemorates the 160th anniversary of Juneteenth, a defining moment in American history and a representation ...

Thomas Jonathan 'Stonewall' Jackson's death and the capture of Jefferson Davis in 1865 ... the ADL writes. The American Civil War Museum describes the use of the flag after the Civil War as ...

The Fulcrum introduces Congress Bill Spotlight, a weekly report by Jesse Rifkin, focusing on the noteworthy legislation of ...

Historians say it is possible that George Laurens is among the 20 people buried in unmarked Mepkin graves that abut the small ...

Even in its earliest days, discord was part and parcel of American life ... The Ku Klux Klan, created in 1865, was led by Nathan Bedford Forrest with the mission of terrorizing and terrifying ...

One day in 2018, as he was doing his routine check around the area, he saw a flag flying in the ... Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union says the 1865 massacre is emblematic of ...

As with the Lion of the Confederacy, the Atlanta committee recommended to leave this monument in place with added context, and to remove the Confederate flag flying next to it. It was covered with ...