Wikimedia Commons/Christophe cagé The First Shot of the Civil War at Fort Sumter Confederate Lieutenant Henry S. Farley pulled the trigger of a large cannon at Fort Sumter at 4:30 a.m. on April 12, ...

Plans to remove "offending" history from National Park Service sites is a bad idea. In fact, it's practically un-American.

As we approach the 250th anniversary next year of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War ...

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry ordered the family name of a Confederate leader restored to a base under his father's name.

Manassas National Battlefield Park preserves over 5,000 acres of Virginia countryside and is the site of some of the blo ...

Gov. Jeff Landry announced Monday he will name a national guard facility after an early 19th century Louisiana militia member ...

Charleston, South Carolina blends hands-on history, engaging museums, and beachside fun to surprise even the most reluctant ...

Charleston, South Carolina became the ignition point for the U.S. Civil War when Confederate forces bombarded Fort Sumter, ...

Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...