Nebraska has no Civil War battlegrounds. It wasn't even a state during the war. Perhaps these facts explain why many think, in the larger story of the Civil War, Nebraska deserves no more than a ...

The new namesake is Fred Benning, a Nebraska native awarded the military's second-highest honor for his battlefield courage as an 18-year-old corporal in 1918, near the end of World War I.

The Historical Fort Branch Society announced the move on its Facebook page on May 19. The Confederate Civil War site has since relocated its artifacts to a secure location.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth restored the names of Fort Benning and Fort Bragg, which were originally named for Confederate generals.

As a historian of the American Civil War, I study how the Confederate government used a radical idea: printing paper money. In 1861, 11 states tried to leave the United States and form a new ...

We’re taught in school that the American Civil War ended when Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865 — 160 years ago Wednesday.

Today, though, Confederate dollars have value as a collectible item. Just like people will pay money to own a Civil War hat or musket, they will pay money to own Confederate money.