The Frederick Hill Meserve Collection comprises more than five thousand Civil War-era portrait negatives from the Mathew Brady photography studio in New York City. The collection, which the National ...

Exploring America's political crisis and the looming threat of civil war.

Watching the "Civil War" documentary series again raised concerns about divisions in modern America and the possibilities of another civil war, Frank Sobolewski of North Royalton writes in letter ...

Next year, a new monument honoring Civil War hero Robert Smalls will be unveiled outside the South Carolina Statehouse. Smalls escaped slavery during the war and went on to serve in the U.S. House ...

William "Bill" Clay Sr., Missouri's first Black congressman and a St. Louis civil rights leader, has died. He was 94.

William "Bill" Clay Sr., founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus and Missouri's first Black congressman, died at the age of 94.

The premier New Jersey production of And in This Corner … Cassius Clay, Idris Goodwin's drama about the rise of the boxer who became Muhammad Ali, will mark the final round of The Theater ...

William L. Clay Sr., Missouri’s first Black congressman and a prominent civil rights leader who died last week, was one of the most consequential politicians in the state, rising to power during ...

New research is shedding light on a 40-acre military camp for Black soldiers that fanned out from the southeast corner of Columbia Pike and S. Courthouse Road during the Civil War. Camp Casey ...

James Carville warned Democrats are "steamrolling toward a civilized civil war" as divisions deepen along generational and ideological lines, urging unity against Trump.

Francis D. Turley, the Billings native and former Roundup boxer who knocked Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) to the canvas in a Golden Gloves boxing match in 1958, has died.