The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 American merchant vessels, unaware that the conflict had already ended ...

Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) advocated for keeping Confederate statues and namesakes to remember how far the United States has ...

He also announced that he would restore the names of all Army bases that were named for Confederate generals during the Jim ...

Rep. Wesley Hunt argued against removing confederate names from military bases during an appearance on"Real Time" Friday, ...

Texas, defended President Donal Trump's decision to restore Robert E. Lee's name to a military base in Virginia, during an ...

Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, contains the remains of more than 400,000 people from the United States and 13 other countries, buried there since the 1860s. More than three ...

Total war against civilians didn't begin with World War II. It was official policy of the Union during the Civil War to lay ...

Juneteenth is what the dictionaries call a “compression,” in this case of a date, ‘June Nineteenth.’ The actual June 19th that we mark with this holiday is June 19, 1865.

The bronze statue of the teenage civil rights heroine will replace a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that the state ...

The red, heart-shaped sculpture atop the Harmony Circle column was the first artwork to replace the statue of Confederate ...

Fort Lee is now named for Pvt. Fitz Lee. The new namesake was a Buffalo Soldier who earned the Medal of Honor for his actions ...

We feature a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people ...