History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

Georgia's Fort Benning, formerly Fort Moore, is holding a ceremony to rename the military base. Here are bios of the people behind the names - including the two Bennings.

1861, to make it the capital of the Confederate States of America. He had set out from the original capital at Montgomery, Alabama, soon after Virginia seceded from the Union six days earlier.

Southern politicians had warned that they would lead their states out of ... not facilitating their secession from the Union. As a private citizen in Lancaster in 1861, he proclaimed his support ...

It seems as if Tammany Hall, the most well-known example of a “political machine,” has faded into the void at the center of ...

Southern States Bancshares has declared a cash dividend of $0.09 per share, payable on May 12, 2025. Southern States Bancshares, Inc. announced that its Board of Directors has declared a cash ...

ANNISTON, Ala., April 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Southern States Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: SSBK) ("Southern States”), the holding company for Southern States Bank, an Alabama state-chartered ...

Georgia Southern University and Eastern Georgia State College will join together following vote by the Board of Regents.

Southern states, where fertility rates have fallen well below replacement levels, face problematic increases in dependency ratios and ageing populations in the longer run, said Sixteenth Finance ...

Mississippi State University, and University of Southern Mississippi. Jackson State is adding a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Science in Public Health Informatics ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia officially voted to consolidate East Georgia State College and Georgia Southern University. Final board approval of the ...