In 1898, 33 years after the end of the Civil War, the Spanish-American War brought a sudden, unanticipated harmony and unity to a country that had been riven by war and a punitive postwar military ...

Eleanor Jones Harvey talked about a collection of artwork from confederate soldier and artist Conrad Wise Chapman. She describes some of the scenes from the Civil War that are depicted and links ...

War artifacts are typically weapons and uniforms, but occasionally something so strange shows up, that even historians are at ...

On the moonlit night of June 2, 1863, Harriet Tubman and 300 Union soldiers, many of them Black, departed Beaufort, South ...

This wine trail in Maryland offers exquisite vineyard views, a tasty array of wines, and some historical charm.

A project in Charlottesville, Va. seeks to upend the narrative around the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was the center of deadly white nationalist protests there in 2017.

Kara Walker: Confederate Prisoners Being Conducted from Jonesborought to Atlanta, from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), 2005 Credit: MinnPost photo by Sheila Regan As ...

For example, a memorial honoring Robert Smalls, the enslaved Civil War hero who famously sailed a Confederate vessel out of Charleston Harbor and turned it over to the Union navy, and later served ...