Artist Basil Watson is creating the first statue of an African American, Civil War hero Robert Smalls, to be placed on South Carolina's Statehouse grounds.

Quantrill was a prominent guerrilla leader during the Civil War, most infamous for leading a raid on Lawrence, Kansas in August 1863.

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For single white women in pre-Civil War Jefferson City, keeping a boarding house was a good income. Three Lansdown sisters -- ...

Each year, Buffalo Soldiers Day is recognized on July 28, honoring the legacy of the first all-Black Army regiments formed ...

Sudan’s regular army, known as the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), has fought a bloody civil war against the paramilitary Rapid ...

The new exhibit at Jacksonville’s Beaches Museum narrows in on how war has affected the local community, spanning across centuries of conflicts.

Historian Martha Sandweiss turns detective in a quest to identify a mystery woman surrounded by white male colonisers ...

Six decades of civil-rights efforts haven’t budged it, and the usual prescriptions—including reparations—offer no lasting ...

For the first six months, Trump had quite a run going, closing down the border, annihilating the Iranian nuclear program, and ...

Out there in evangelical world are people who pack up their families and go to far-off places to proclaim the Good News.

Of course, I jest. Being awake and being woke have come to mean widely different things now. And it seems as if a big segment ...