The Georgia chapter of a Confederacy group has filed lawsuits against a state park over an exhibit on slavery, segregation, ...

War artifacts are typically weapons and uniforms, but occasionally something so strange shows up, that even historians are at ...

What started as an effort to promote racial unity in Edenton by reconsidering its most prominent downtown symbol has done the ...

Total war against civilians didn't begin with World War II. It was official policy of the Union during the Civil War to lay ...

Those states with no official provision for Juneteenth include Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North ...

According to a 2024 Congressional Research Service report, at least 30 states and the District of Columbia have designated ...

In 2025, archaeologists researching the Civil War history of Kentucky found what may be two mass graves near Simpsonville. The sites are thought to hold the remains of over twenty Black Union soldiers ...

Fifty-two Black veterans of the Civil War are buried at Providence's North Burial Ground. They will be honored June 21 as the community marks Juneteenth.

· George Pickett led the infamous and disastrous “Pickett’s Charge” at Gettysburg, a suicidal assault that became a symbol of Confederate futility. He also ordered the execution of 22 captured Black ...

The report notes that at no point during the Civil War did any Confederate symbol come within 6 miles of the U.S. Capitol, but during the Jan. 6 insurrection, Trump supporters carried the ...

More than 2,000 Confederate symbols are still standing in public spaces across the U.S., according to a report released Thursday by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The symbols illustrate the legacy of the Confederacy and the power struggles over historical memory. While the South lost the Civil War, it succeeded in shaping much of the narrative that followed.