In the wake of a horrific mass shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, in which a young white man with an apparent history of racism is accused of killing nine black people during Bible study at a ...

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged southern states. The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many ...

During the Civil War, no flag became a more popular ... as a young captain shows a dashing man with black sideburns, a confident smile and a frothy white shirt. He made profits in the tortoise ...

National Museum of American History One-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 9, 1865, a lone Confederate horseman violently waving a white towel as a flag of ... The Civil War was entering ...

Two years into the Civil War ... Union casualties were high. But after the Federals surrendered, Forrest's men shot and killed a number of unarmed soldiers and officers, both black and white.

Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount ...

An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...