Standing in silence for over 150 years, Fort Tyler was the Confederacy’s final line of defense in the closing days of the Civil War. Today, its earthworks and ruins tell a story of courage, loss, and ...
At the time the Civil War began in 1861, the United States government did not print paper money; it only minted coins. As a historian of the American Civil War, I study how the Confederate government ...
The Burt-Stark Mansion is known for its historical significance as Confederate president Jefferson Davis' last council of war ...
In 2025, archaeologists researching the Civil War history of Kentucky found what may be two mass graves near Simpsonville. The sites are thought to hold the remains of over twenty Black Union soldiers ...
Mississippi state Sen. Chris McDaniel is leading an insurgency in that state against its sitting U.S. senator, challenging him in the 2014 primaries. The Confederate South is not generally the sort of ...
The stakes are high in Scott Ellsworth’s fast-paced “Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America.” Mr. Ellsworth, a former historian ...
The CSS “Shenandoah” only learned of the Confederacy’s defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser’s crew sank 24 American merchant vessels, unaware that the conflict had already ended ...
The Civil War ripped apart nearly every bond Americans shared — classmates, friends, even family members found themselves on opposite sides of the conflict. One of the most unique feuds came in the ...
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... The late Gore Vidal once recounted how Norman Podhoretz, the neoconservative intellectual and longtime editor of Commentary, was flummoxed ...
The final days of the Civil War's 150th anniversary in Richmond attracted about 650 people to St. Paul's Episcopal Church today for a real-time, real place experience.
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