Civil War

War-like imagery has begun to take hold in Republican circles, erupting into the open after the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump

To most Americans, the sight of armed National Guard troops sleeping in the Capitol Rotunda this past week was shocking and disturbing

Ethiopia is approaching civil war as its Nobel Peace Prize-winning prime minister has ordered the military to confront the country’s well-armed Tigray regional government

Decades after the Civil War ended, Confederate monuments began to be erected in the South – in part as a response to a Northern movement to honor its own soldiers with statues. Mark Elliott, a history professor from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, joined LX News to delve into the history of the Confederate statues and why some...

Quaker Oats announced on Tuesday that they would be rebranding its Aunt Jemima brand of pancake mix and syrup, saying the company recognizes the character’s origins are “based on racial stereotypes.”

An organization that founded the nation’s first memorial to lynching victims has announced that it has documented thousands of additional killings of black people during the Reconstruction era.

The cemeteries of yore existed as much for the living as for the dead. People would picnic and relax there as they would in a park today. Now, a handful of 19th century graveyards are restoring the bygone tradition of cemetery gardening, enlisting volunteers to help keep things green and tidy.

The National Constitution Center in Philadelphia is unveiling the nation’s first permanent exhibit exploring the constitutional debates of the Civil War.

More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, researchers have identified the remains of two soldiers at a excavated battlefield hospital in Manassas, Virginia.

The White House is backing chief of staff John Kelly’s defense of Confederate monuments and his assertion that the Civil War was caused by a failure to compromise....
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters Tuesday that Kelly’s calling Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee “an honorable man” was an attempt to point out that “history isn’t perfect.”...
Sanders cited historian Shelby...

The annual ‘Battle of Gettysburg’ reenactment has been postponed due to flooding until July 17.

Officials have postponed the annual Gettysburg battle reenactment because of rain and flooding.