On April 18, 1861, six days after the opening shots of the Civil War, the Philadelphia Inquirer described a “great sensation” in Boston. A “strange craft” had appeared in the harbor: a ...

In 1866, Congress wrote Section 3 to keep former Confederates like Stephens from returning to power. It bars anyone who swore an oath to support the Constitution, and then engaged in insurrection ...

The Trump administration’s arguments against birthright citizenship for all are ahistorical, and make no sense when considered in the context of the Civil War and its aftermath. It’s a bold argument ...

The former Confederates “continued to transmit norms to their children and non-Southern neighbors,” the researchers wrote, “shaping racial inequities in labor, housing, and policing.” ...

The story behind Thomas O’Dea's harrowing drawing of the Confederates' Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Memorial Day events will be held at the site this weekend.

With the Confederates charging the Columbia Bridge, Union defenders first mined the bridge to drop a span into the Susquehanna. That did not work so they set fire to the structure to successfully ...

The U.S. government has an official policy of never negotiating with terrorists. The logic is simple: to negotiate with terrorists only encourages their attacks. Furthermore, the U.S. government ...

Bases such as Fort Pickett, named after Gen. George Pickett, who led the famous last charge of the Confederates at the Battle of Gettysburg. Billie Coleburn, the former mayor of Blackstone ...

160 years separate the lives of Sara, an enslaved rebel turned Union spy, and Sandra, a tenured professor at a modern-day university. But in their struggles against oppression, Sara and Sandra ...

When the Confederates lost the U.S. Civil War, a significant number of them feared reprisal from the Yankees and life in a society where their former slaves had been freed. So thousands of ...

Thousands of defeated Confederates went into exile in Brazil, unwilling to abide by the Union's victory and consequent emancipation of enslaved Black people, and set up a colony nearby Santa ...