On Monday, as President Donald Trump’s inauguration coincided with Martin Luther King Jr. Day, some of the president’s most ...

Most Americans think of Abraham Lincoln in hagiographic terms, the man who “saved” the United States from destruction. A ...

Let’s set aside for a moment the questions of the legality and constitutionality of Trump’s action and ask instead: Where did ...

St. Simons Island, off the coast of Georgia, is a paradise of beaches, golf courses, tennis courts, swimming pools and nature ...

Brown University history scholar Seth Rockman has spent the past 15 years researching his book Plantation Goods: A Material ...

“Fort fisher was essentially America’s largest sand castle ever built,” Steele said. ”Construction began around early in 1861 ...

Leaders of both parties honored 100 Black lawmakers from the Reconstruction era, then turned to modern battles over ...

Building and repairing the fort went on nonstop during the four-year war, which required the slaves to rotate through ... 1865, Gen. Robert E. Lee was forced to surrender within 90 days as ...

Join historians and Civil War enthusiasts at Wilmington's Fort Fisher this Saturday for the 160th anniversary of the pivotal ...

Southern Democrats fought the American Civil War to protect slavery from President Abraham Lincoln and the newly-formed ...