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I think what’s been lost to history is the fact that the Union was not, in the war’s early years, wholly united around the war effort. The public’s enthusiasm was not helped along by setback after ...

It's hard to forget the violence that broke out in Charlottesville, Virginia seven months ago when hundreds of white supremacists showed up to protest the proposed removal of a statue of General ...

Editor’s Note: Gordon Rhea is an attorney based in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, and an author of books on the history of the Civil War. He has lectured on military history at the U.S. Army Training ...

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 ...

R. Douglas Hurt, professor and head of Purdue's Department of History, is the author of "Agriculture and the Confederacy: Policy, Productivity, and Power in the Civil War South." (Purdue University ...

In June of 1865, Confederate Gen. Joseph Shelby and about a thousand of his cavalrymen rode into Mexico and exile rather than remain in a conquered South. As they forded the Rio Grande, they stopped ...

Some have argued that the Confederacy was formed and the Civil War was fought over the question of states' rights, not slavery. Tennessee Gov. Isham Harris delivered his call for secession to a joint ...

The nation is splattered with these zombie structures, or sutures, with nowhere to be and no path to total erasure.” ...

IN one of Mr. W. E. Henley’s hospital poems, a sailor, “ set at euchre on his elbow,” tells in twenty lines what he saw from the wharf at Charleston when he was there off a blockade runner, near the ...

John Oliver took a roundabout way to set up the main story on Last Week Tonight, taking a detour to discuss his disgraced childhood hero Jimmy Savile. Savile was a sweatsuit-clad British broadcasting ...