In this special relic hunt, we visit a Confederate camp and team up with reenactors from the 48th Alabama Infantry to learn how to identify authentic Civil War finds. Their period-accurate gear and ...

Alabama played a central role in some of the most important chapters of American history, from early statehood and frontier ...

The American Civil War is a pivotal and ugly moment in American ... and he eventually headed to Montgomery, Alabama, where the heads of the recently seceded Southern states were planning to ...

Green Bluff's Siemers Farm, known for strawberry and fall festivals, transformed into a Civil War battlefield this Memorial Day weekend. Late Saturday morning, Union and Confederate soldiers traded ...

Jefferson Davis' birthday is one of three confederate holidays in Alabama. See when it is observed and what closures will ...

Hickox is now working with fellow Civil War historian Chuck Murrow on a book ... we think it was used by the Alabama soldiers,” he said. He tracks all the different infantry divisions through ...

Not only is Memorial Day celebrated in May, but several other holidays that honor those in the military as well.

The Civil War is available to stream on pbs.org and ... One in in Montgomery, Alabama and later Richmond, as well as Washington, D.C. and so I realized this was the central event in American ...

Alabama is the only other state that combines ... Many in the Confederacy felt that negotiation marked the end of the Civil War. Gen. Robert E. Lee had surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia ...

On New Year’s Day, 1969, a group of student civil rights activists began walking from Belfast to Derry. Their protest was inspired by the famous 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, a high point of ...