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War artifacts are typically weapons and uniforms, but occasionally something so strange shows up, that even historians are at ...
In this episode, a genealogy researcher and self-proclaimed Yankee heads to Georgia on her first relic hunt—searching for Confederate artifacts from 1864. With a deep interest in Civil War ...
Explore the legacy of Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan, from leading the Lexington Rifles to his ill-fated raid and ultimate death in the Civil War.
Japan’s civil war over surnames Inventive schemes help women dodge inflexible marriage laws ...
Before the civil war, Adre was a town of about 40,000. As Sudanese began to arrive, sympathetic residents with longtime cross-border ties offered them land.
Confederate monuments are “tied to the mythology of the Lost Cause — the way many white Americans have chosen to view history following the Civil War,” Dorsey wrote.
For nearly 114 years, the Confederate statue has stood on its pedestal outside the old county courthouse on Fourth Street in downtown Winston-Salem.
Object Details Description Numismatists, people who study or collect coins, generally categorize Civil War Tokens into three themes: patriotic, store cards, and sutler tokens. As with this coin, ...
EU civil war explodes as Ursula von der Leyen sidelines MEPs with £128bn plan Ursula von der Leyen said she bypassed MEPs to address "existential" challenges in Europe.
A white Illinois teen attaches himself to a regiment of Black Union soldiers in the satirical Civil War novel "How to Dodge a Cannonball." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with author Dennard Dayle about it.
UPDATED: Greg Eanes, the mayor of Crewe, no longer is seeking Richmond's unwanted monuments in an effort to boost tourism.