History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

For the third time, supporters of what’s known as “CalExit” are attempting to get a measure on the ballot that asks ...

So successful was the Lost Cause propaganda campaign that most Americans forgot the true meaning of the Civil War.

If the justices take up a case on Virginia’s felon disenfranchisement law, they’ll be burrowing back to Reconstruction-era ...

In this new episode of Kings and Generals’ Civil War series, we cover the Battle of Fredericksburg—one of the bloodiest and ...

If you’ve ever spent time in downtown Fayetteville, you may have noticed a stone monument on the northwest corner of the old courthouse lawn. Or, like me fo ...

Georgia's Fort Benning, formerly Fort Moore, is holding a ceremony to rename the military base. Here are bios of the people behind the names - including the two Bennings.

Retrumplicans have set me and my history-teaching colleagues straight. We’re done “rewriting history.” Apparently 17th and 18th century Europeans “found” a virgin wilderness where they could establish ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last month ordered the change back to Fort Benning to honor Fred Benning, who was awarded the ...

The Supreme Court ruled in the 1869 case Texas v. White that secession had been unconstitutional and that the “Confederate states,” including Virginia, never actually left the Union during the ...