With Louisiana’s militias off fighting in Virginia and Tennessee, the job of defending the Crescent City fell to two forts ...

A judge challenging the outcome of his North Carolina Supreme Court race was photographed wearing Confederate military garb and posing before a Confederate battle flag when he was a member of a ...

The Defense Department (DoD) efforts to purge civil ... in Virginia, but relocated to Massachusetts where he joined the Union Army’s first official Black unit in 1863. His finest hour in uniform ...

The Defense Department efforts to purge civil ... in Virginia, but relocated to Massachusetts where he joined the Union Army’s first official Black unit in 1863. His finest hour in uniform ...

Griffin said he regretted donning the Confederate uniform, which was customary during the fraternity ... view of history that romanticizes the Confederacy and portrays the Civil War as a valiant ...

From Vietcong diplomats to American anti-war activists, these women made their mark on one of the 20th century’s most ...

The soul of a nation is its history, its literature, and its shared culture. The National Endowment for the Humanities has ...

Jimmy Stewart is the kind of actor who made standing up for what’s right feel like the obvious choice. He built his legacy by ...

There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...

Three weeks after a researcher at Georgetown University was detained by federal immigration agents and accused of spreading ...

The White House is pursuing deep cuts to veterans service staff, actions that could break the nation’s promise to the men and ...

A curiosity, yes, but to the surprise of many Civil War buffs even today ... Then there was Charlotte Hope, who signed up in the 1st Virginia Cavalry to avenge the death of her fiancé, killed ...