Artist Basil Watson is creating the first statue of an African American, Civil War hero Robert Smalls, to be placed on South Carolina's Statehouse grounds.

Before he was a South Carolina lawmaker recognized as a champion of civil rights, Robert Smalls escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship. Eventually, he would become a top ...

Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861, by Robert W. Merry. Simon & Schuster, 528 pages.

Today’s episode will focus on one of the biggest – and most important – turning points in world history; the Battle of Gettysburg. The three-day battle occurred during the American Civil War; a major ...

Robert Smalls​ escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship and became a top Union naval officer and South Carolina lawmaker.

On Jan. 25, 1865, a company of Black Union soldiers was ambushed by Confederate guerrillas in Simpsonville, Kentucky. Kentucky was technically neutral during the Civil War, but it was also home to ...

Classes were suspended for most of the Civil War but that didn't mean the Knoxville campus went unused. Troops from both ...

Texas at war's end As the war progressed, many enslavers from the South fled to Texas, causing the state's enslaved population to balloon from about 182,000 in 1860 to 250,000 by the end of the ...

In efforts to remember and promote Civil War history, the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW) held their 29th annual encampment at the Museum of the Kansas National Guard.

An American Civil War monument on the Jessamine County Courthouse lawn in Kentucky honors those who fought in the Confederacy. But the statue wears a Union soldier’s hat.