1619 Project author Nikole Hannah-Jones falsely claimed this week that the Civil War – which began in April 1861 and resulted in an end to slavery in America – began in 1865, the year the war ...

Holy Week in 1865 presented the last chance for the South to keep the past alive. ... Embers of the Civil War are still burning, some brush fires, others, uncontrollable flames.

Looking back on the Civil War in his 1882 “Specimen Days & Collect,” Walt Whitman reflected that “the real war will never get in the books.” He had tried, in “Drum-Taps” (1865), a ...

Work is being done to preserve an important part of Civil War history. Sign up for our Newsletters The Gettysburg Cyclorama, a painting that depicts Pickett's Charge on July 3, 1863, is nearly 150 ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) - Vermont historians have their eyes on a historic painting up for auction this weekend, and the possible chance to bring it home to the Green Mountains. Vermont’s ...