VIRGINIA seceded on the seventeenth of April, 1861, one day previous to Lee’s critical interviews with Blair and Scott. On the twenty-third of April, Lee was invited to appear before the state ...

At the time the Civil War began in 1861, the United States government did not print paper money; it only minted coins. As a historian of the American Civil War, I study how the Confederate government ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dead soldiers lie on the battlefield at Gettysburg in July of 1863. Corbis via Getty Images Over the July Fourth long weekend, ...

ALTON, Ill. (AP) — After last year’s deadly clash between white nationalists and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, the federal government quietly spent millions of dollars to hire ...

ASHEVILLE - A temporary restraining order sought in the planned demolition of a monument to a locally-born confederate governor has been denied. Buncombe County Superior Court Judge Steven Warren on ...

Debate over Jacksonville’s Confederate monument in Springfield Park rages on – 108 years after its dedication and a month after its removal. In just three years, plans have been made, changed and ...

Over the July Fourth long weekend, people will pour into the small town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to commemorate the 160th anniversary of one of the deadliest battles in U.S. history. The three-day ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. What happened to Confederate money after the ...