Orange Park's Don Hillhouse, a "serious amateur" history researcher, scoured the National Archives for records of Union ...

The flag icon has been used on government sites since 2017, said a spokesperson for the General Services Association, which guides federal website standards. The flag had only nine stars because of ...

They accepted war. The question who fired the first gun is nothing. If the so-called "Confederate States" are not in the Union, then they are a foreign nation, and Mr. STEVENS consistently so ...

The first military commander to oversee the occupation of New Orleans after the Civil War wasn't all good or all bad. But some things just stuck deeper in the collective memory.

Despite being little more than the answer to trivia questions today, Vaughn Meader was a pioneer who paved the way for ...

Did you know that Confederate Missouri leaders actually moved to Shreveport and then Marshall, Texas, to establish the ...

Just weeks before Charleston fell 160 years ago today, Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery. And now, in the very city that had championed the cause of bondage, formerly ...

On the morning of June 30, 1863, Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry first clashed with the rear guard of Union ...

History also has overlooked, among the things, Butler’s post-war advocacy for freedmen and Black soldiers. As a member of the ...