One researcher argues a general's 200-year-old Kentucky will, and others like it, support the case for present-day ...

In the book, “Slavery After Slavery," Dr. Mary Frances Berry, who is an acclaimed historian, educator and activist, writes about the court cases of several children who were forced to work and ...

In the decades before the Civil War, more than ... placed ads in newspapers in Richmond and Chicago looking for their brother Lias, it was more than 50 years after slavery had ended, but they ...

Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying army, could it have banished all the residual slavery ...

The Civil War was an extremely divisive time in American history that split the North and South into the Union and the Confederacy, resulting in almost four years of war within the country. Almost 200 ...

The cemetery, which is operated by the Army, said it was working to restore the content. Among the obscured pages was ...

New Civil War research armed with more data gives the fullest picture yet of not just the overall death toll but its disproportionate impact on the South, including Georgia.