This is the historic last Civil War Funeral of Confederate Lt Andrew Jackson Buttram. This is part I of a 2 part series. The ...

The Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Sites Consortium hosted a two-day event to teach and empower communities ...

In the years after the Civil War, white politicians in Southern states created multiple holidays to honor Confederate leaders and dead Confederate soldiers. Alabama lawmakers in 1901 named a ...

the site of the Civil War Battle of Fort Myers, as its county seat. Confederate Memorial Day was started in Georgia in April 1866 to commemorate the deaths of Confederate soldiers on the first ...

In the years after the Civil War, white politicians in southern states created multiple holidays to honor Confederate leaders and dead Confederate soldiers. Alabama lawmakers in 1901 named a ...

[Arch-segregationist Alabama Gov. George] Wallace rightly identified the enemy ... his racism more explicit. The Civil War, he says, wasn’t about slavery. It was the imposition by godless Yankees of a ...

On June 19, 1864, the Union sloop-of-war USS Kearsarge laid in wait outside the French port of Cherbourg for the Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama. The Confederate warship had wreaked havoc ...

“The Twickenham Town Chapter is proud to recognize and honor one of our Nation’s first veterans and two of North Alabama’s first settlers, Revolutionary War Patriot Isaac Wellborn and his wi ...