A rain delay played an essential role in The Battle of Jackson, which was fought 162 years ago today in Jackson, Mississippi, ...

In 1863, abolitionist Harriet Tubman guided a raid that liberated nearly 760 enslaved people working on rice plantations ...

The story of the Civil War is all about division within one’s own country. But the schisms ran deeper than just North against South—there were also cracks within the Union itself, even after ...

The Trump administration’s arguments against birthright citizenship for all are ahistorical, and make no sense when ...

Almost exactly 160 years ago, the American Civil War wound down to a messy and anticlimactic end. By December 1864, it was ...

The mainstream legacy media and especially the hometown Washington Post have been castigating the Trump administration for ...

While the Civil War was never fought in California, the state nevertheless played a major role in generating pro-Union ...