On this day in 1861, delegates from six states that had seceded from the Union met in Montgomery, Ala., to establish a unified government, which they named the Confederate States of America. Five days ...

This video explores a speculative scenario regarding the hypothetical restoration of the Confederacy in the modern era, ...

In June of 1865, Confederate Gen. Joseph Shelby and about a thousand of his cavalrymen rode into Mexico and exile rather than remain in a conquered South. As they forded the Rio Grande, they stopped ...

It's hard to forget the violence that broke out in Charlottesville, Virginia seven months ago when hundreds of white supremacists showed up to protest the proposed removal of a statue of General ...

Editor’s Note: Gordon Rhea is an attorney based in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, and an author of books on the history of the Civil War. He has lectured on military history at the U.S. Army Training ...

When news of Abraham Lincoln’s election to the presidency reached South Carolina on the morning of Nov. 8, 1860, joyful Charlestonians took to the streets. Whites erected liberty poles near the ...

Some have argued that the Confederacy was formed and the Civil War was fought over the question of states' rights, not slavery. Tennessee Gov. Isham Harris delivered his call for secession to a joint ...

IN one of Mr. W. E. Henley’s hospital poems, a sailor, “ set at euchre on his elbow,” tells in twenty lines what he saw from the wharf at Charleston when he was there off a blockade runner, near the ...

John Oliver took a roundabout way to set up the main story on Last Week Tonight, taking a detour to discuss his disgraced childhood hero Jimmy Savile. Savile was a sweatsuit-clad British broadcasting ...