Monday is the federal holiday honoring Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Two US states celebrate Confederate Gen.

Two Pottsville militia units, Washington Artillerists and National Light Infantry, were among the First Defenders to answer ...

After Grant was voted in to succeed Johnson, he appointed Longstreet as the surveyor of customs for New Orleans. Governor ...

In recent decades, Gettysburg has come to be understood less as a military encounter than as an emancipatory turning point.

Mastriano highlighted the financial burden on taxpayers and preservation professionals to restore the defaced monuments ...

Local historian Mike Marotte shares the story of the Grand Army of the Republic, a club for Civil War veterans, and one of ...

Looking back, January 6, 2021 was another one of those dates “which will live in infamy,” like President Franklin Roosevelt ...

The South Carolina Statehouse grounds bears monuments that tell the story not just of South Carolina history, but the context ...

“The Commonwealth of Virginia will now be properly represented by an actual patriot who embodied the principle of liberty and justice for all, and not a traitor who took up arms against the United ...

A Black woman who led a walkout to protest conditions at her segregated high school in Virginia is now immortalized in the U.S. Capitol. Her statue rests in the same space that one of Confederate Gen.

Teen civil rights icon Barbara Rose Johns is known for leading a student walkout at her high school during the '50s. The walkout was meant to be a protest against the racial segregation at public ...