The Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was a Civil War-era death camp. After the Civil War millions of freed Black ...

Lucien Weakley’s weathered headstone stands beneath a towering magnolia tree that is surrounded by the graves of thousands of other Confederate soldiers ... quantify the Civil War’s staggering ...

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Elsewhere in the country, parts of the rebel army ...

Lane Nichols takes a luxury cruise down the mighty Mississippi River and falls in love with New Orleans jazz music, Delta ...

The emergence of the photographs comes at a delicate time for Jefferson Griffin, a Republican appellate judge who is seeking ...

Outdoor writer and photographer Corbet Deary is featured regularly in The Sentinel-Record. Today, Deary takes readers on a journey to Pea Ridge National Military Park.

University of North Georgia (UNG) faculty and staff released an award-winning album featuring new music on the last year of ...

said firing squads were used — not often — by both sides during the Civil War to create a “public spectacle, a vision of terror” to keep soldiers in line. “A man could be sitting on his ...

New springtime books include historical fiction from World War II and the American South, an egg-related crime mystery, ...

Judge Jefferson Griffin was photographed wearing Confederate military garb and posing before a Confederate battle flag when ...

A history professor has launched a podcast exploring how race, religion and community are symbolized by a Confederate ...