Henry Wirz remains one of the most controversial figures of the Civil War. As commandant of Andersonville Prison, he oversaw ...

The Klu Klux Klan At the end of the American Civil War, Confederate veterans formed ... Local NAACP leaders included pioneering figures ranging from Daisy Bates in Little Rock, Arkansas and ...

As a teenager, he was an apprentice to the Irish American photographer ... For the first year of the Civil War, O’Sullivan worked with Brady, and then in 1862 became assistant to colleague ...

On episode 84, Charles talks to Michael Vorenberg about his new book, Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil ... and illustrations of the Civil War figure.

Critics of the statues have said they celebrate racism and tell a false narrative of the Civil War, and in the case of Columbus and other colonial figures, genocide against Indigenous populations.