Tom Hanks and Ken Burns launched a bold PBS series that challenges attempts to hide parts of America’s past. The series, ...

African American researcher, author, and Civil War reenactor Calvin L. Osborne will be a guest lecturer at the Fort Scott ...

Set for Oct. 2, “Lincoln and the Constitution: The 13th Amendment—a Conversation Between Scholars” is at 6 p.m. in the John ...

The smell of campfires and gunpowder were in the air at Burton Century Village Museum and Historical Education Center’s Civil War re-enactment. The encampment took place on May 24 at 14653 E. Park St.

A new posthumous collection from David McCullough, "History Matters," has just been published. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Jon Meacham and Dorie McCullough Lawson about it.

History comes alive at Wickham Park's Civil War Weekend as reenactors aim to educate hundreds on American division.

On the occasion of the ACLU’s centennial, this essay collection explores many critical moments in the organization’s history. In 1917, war fever was sweeping the country. So was anti-dissent hysteria.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls’ statue should be staring down a notorious ...

This past August Army Private Sandy Wills was buried with full military honors at a veterans' cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee. Private Wills served his country, though not in this century, or the last.

Florida was the third state to secede from the Union during the Civil War. Around 15,000 Floridians fought in the Civil War, representing the highest percentage of any Confederate state. Florida faced ...