The first memorial dedicated solely to the African-American troops who fought for the Union.

The governor’s yearbook picture, like many images before it, reinforces the belief that blacks are content in their oppression.

Was the Civil War fought over slavery? Shortly after seven southern states had seceded from the Union and joined together as the Confederate States of America, and less than a month before the Confederate military opened fire on Ft. Sumter, the newly elected vice president of the Confederacy, Alexander Stephens, gave a definitive answer. Yes.

The year the first enslaved Africans were brought to Jamestown is drilled into students’ memories, but overemphasizing this date distorts history

Louisiana's Whitney Plantation pays homage to the experiences of slaves across the South.

Flavia Galuppo just inherited her father’s building, home to Etna Tool & Die. It’s now surrounded by boutiques and luxury condos, but she is determined not to sell.

In a new travelling exhibition, the significance of the transcontinental railroad, finished in 1869, will be celebrated in a series of images capturing its arduous construction through to its triumphant completion

Scribbles from home, kept safe on the battlefield.

Dearborn, proud home of Henry Ford, has addressed the auto pioneer's anti-Semitism in the 1920s, which flourishes today on extremist websites.

The eagerly anticipated American Civil War Museum has set a grand opening date of Saturday, May 4.

Convicted in the Cold War spy trial that delivered Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to their deaths and divided the nation, he later admitted that he had been a spy.

Through images and personal essays by longtime New York Times writers, a vivid look at the man who made baseball truly American.

There's only one Sigma Derby machine left.

At 4 p.m. on September 18, 1891, Oliver Cromwell Gould, son of 10th Maine Infantry veteran John Mead Gould, took a photograph of Antietam’s East Woods.

Laurin Stennis designed a banner that could change how the world sees a state with a brutal racial history — and perhaps how it sees her famous family.

In the last decade alone, American taxpayers have spent at least $40 million on Confederate monuments and groups that perpetuate racist ideology

Would the F.B.I.’s smear campaign against Martin Luther King Jr. work today? By Beverly Gage. (Nov. 11, 2014)

A cultural reckoning remains distant as both sides quarrel in courts, college campuses and town squares over Confederate symbols in public spaces.

When George H.W. Bush arrived in Washington as vice president in January 1981 he seemed little more than a sideshow to Ronald Reagan, the one-time leading man who had been overwhelmingly elected to the greatest stage in the world... By Seymour M. Hersh.

The violence of the U.S. Civil War transformed Jesse James from Missouri farm boy to vicious killer.