In 1946 there were still 16 survivors of the Civil War living in Texas, all of whom were more than 100 years old. They lived ...
One of the stranger legends surrounding the controversial Confederate general Stonewall Jackson is the fact that Jackson's ...
The idea of “red states” and “blue states” may feel deeply embedded in the symbolism of US politics, but before 2000 the ...
A Confederate monument that was removed from a courthouse square in Mississippi will stay in storage while a lawsuit over its ...
Dr. Brian Steel Wills, an award-winning author of American Civil War History, will be presenting "The Logic of Logistics: ...
The U.S. Board on Geographic Names voted, 20-0, to restore the "Kuwohi" name to a mountain traditionally used by the Cherokee ...
So, the army began leasing the land from James ... At the beginning of the Civil War in 1861, the fort was abandoned by United States troops and replaced by Confederate soldiers. With the failure to ...
A Mississippi town has taken down a Confederate monument that stood since 1910. The figure was wrapped in tarps the past four ...
The peak became known as Clingmans Dome following an 1859 survey by geographer Arnold Guyot, who named it for Thomas Lanier ...
The origins of voting outside the polling place in the U.S. date back to 1813.
In 1823, two boys were born in Munfordville, about 40 miles north of Bowling Green in Hart County. The boys would grow up ...
A new Civil War monument will be installed soon on the northeast corner of the Jasper County Courthouse lawn. It will offer the Union perspective on the ...