Confederate monuments burst into public consciousness in 2015 when a shooting at a historically Black church in Charleston, ...

Union Gen. William T. Sherman completed his Civil War "march to the sea" across the South and arrived in Savannah, Ga.

Lincoln's chance came after the Union ... celebrated the news. In the South, most slaves did not hear of the proclamation for months. But the purpose of the Civil War had now changed.

The decline of the American South's cotton and sugar industries paved the way for plantations in British-controlled Fiji and Australia, where victims of "blackbirding" endured horrific working conditi ...

For many years, historians have relied on a rough estimate of war dead from the U.S. Civil War ... men who moved from the North to the South or vice-versa after the war. The study found that ...

The city has marked the Battle of Nashville for decades. Now, a new effort is underway to preserve Fort Negley.

So it’s no surprise that traction for the holiday in the South didn’t really begin until years after the Civil War defeat and the end of slavery. Later, Montgomery and the rest of the South ...