The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

On my periodic trips to Atlanta, I often stop at one of my favorite bookstores, A Capella Books near Inman Park. During my ...

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

In his new book, "Dangerous Learning," legal scholar Derek Black tells the story of the resistance to Black literacy in this ...

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

reaffirming the Civil War as the deadliest armed conflict in American history. Southern states, according to the study, saw 13.1% of their U.S.-born, military-age, white males like Weakley die in ...

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...

While there are many external enemies we must face together, the most insidious one often lies within. As a united and ...

Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying army ... Abraham Lincoln wanted to “let them (the defeated Southern states) up easy” but as Vorenberg shows in great ...

Their answer? The myth of the Lost Cause. In this final episode of our series on the Confederacy, Don catches up with Ty Seidule to find out where this myth came from, and what it really is.