Austin tiptoed through the Civil War. The major battlefields lay hundreds of miles away. Much of the Texas capital's business was put on hold. Union and Confederate sympathizers skirmished in the Hill ...

President Donald Trump botched 19th-century U.S. history on Friday, telling a crowd of supporters that the Civil War and ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Austin’s Black population grew steadily after the end of the American Civil War in the 1860s, and most lived in small communities called "Freedmen's towns" that were located outside ...

Donald Trump's recent comments in Texas about the Civil War and Reconstruction have sparked controversy and raised questions ...