Civil War

Crews have begun to remove lettering that honors Confederate President Jefferson Davis at Fort Monroe National Monument.

"We Will Prove Ourselves Men," reads the inscription at the top of the regimental flag carried of the 127th United States...

The Bible ties together the 16th president's budding views on spirituality and his belief that God was calling him to end...

U.S. presidents have long used their power of clemency to grant amnesty, commutations or pardons to military personnel.

The U.S. Military Academy will unveil its first statue of Grant, the 18th president, on Thursday.

Gov. Ralph Northam is calling for the removal of an arch honoring the former president of the Confederacy at Fort Monroe.

It was written inside the home where Lincoln was rushed after being shot at Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865.

By 1860, there were more than 1.6 million people of Irish descent who called themselves American – and upwards of 175,000 of...

Atlanta's Cyclorama depicts a Civil War battlefield as Union troops defeated Confederate forces and then torched much of the...

Historian Henry Louis Gates hopes "Reconstruction: America After the Civil War" enlightens people to what he believes is one...