And if you have old Confederate bills stashed away, their value could surprise you — and it might be time to get an appraisal. Check Out: 10 of the Most Valuable Pennies Read Next: 6 Genius ...

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 ...

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.

U.S. Defense Secretary on Monday ordered the U.S. Army to rename Fort Moore back to its original name of Fort Benning, ...

At the foot of both sits the iron cross of the Confederate States of America. As the US grapples with the question of what to do with its controversial memorials to the Confederacy, across the ...