The Civil War began when the Confederates bombarded Union soldiers at Fort Sumter, South Carolina on April 12, 1861.

More than 160 years after Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, echoes of the Civil ...

Unpacking the logic of from's National Garden of American Heroes honoring figures from Christopher Columbus to Whitney ...

That all changed when Charlotte was seven. Her father returned home from an exploratory trip to the frontier of Florida and ...

Stone Mountain looms over Georgia’s landscape like a silent witness to history, its gray granite face carved with figures ...