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

U.S. President Donald Trump stands with Secretary of Education Linda McMahon after signing an executive order to reduce the ...

The commission tasked with reviewing Confederate-inspired names of military assets has recommended in its final report to Congress that the Defense Department rename or remove hundreds of items. In ...

After the carnage of the American Civil War, the country was still left with the difficult task of Reconstruction. But the ...

In an unusual trial, the N.A.A.C.P. has sought to show a school board’s “racist intent” by proving that the names of Robert E ...

In 1926, the United Daughters of the Confederacy erected a monument to the Ku Klux Klan in a town just outside Charlotte, North Carolina. Though the marker itself seems to have been lost to time—or ...

FILE - A carving depicting Confederate Civil War figures Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, is seen in Stone Mountain, Ga., June 23, 2015. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File) STONE ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Follow Ryan Pickrell Every time Ryan publishes a story, you’ll get an alert straight to your inbox!

Euan Hague is co-editor, with Edward H. Sebesta (who provided additional research for this article) and Heidi Beirich, of Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction (University of Texas, 2008) and is ...

Comes amid outcry over the flying of the Confederate flag in South Carolina. — -- The American flag was lowered to half-staff at the South Carolina state capitol last week after the deadly church ...

This story is part of American Anthem, a yearlong series on songs that rouse, unite, celebrate and call to action. Find more at NPR.org/Anthem. When my Pakistani ...