The decree also left room for a plan of compensated emancipation. No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation declared ...

The short-lived existence of Fort Liberty is set to an end Friday when the nation’s largest Army installation officially ...

"This is not a humble monument to the Georgians who fought in the Civil War," one Georgia native said of the carvings on ...

Henrick chronicles the “valiant but ultimately doomed” efforts of Confederate States of America president Jefferson Davis and his cabinet to secede from and try to defeat the United States.

Ty Seidule, a retired Army brigadier general and co-chairman of the commission that swapped out names of Confederate soldiers who waged war against the United States for American heroes ...