A new collection of primary source documents, "The 1863 Stibbs Family Civil War Era Letters," is the third set of letters ...

Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th ...

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

The Georgia branch of the Sons of Confederate Veterans says plans for the exhibit at Memorial Hall violate state law.

On July 2, 1964, the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law with the signature of President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Indeed, 12 military men in the American Revolution were drawing pensions in the Civil War, and the photos of six appeared in E.B. Hillard’s book “The Last Men of the Revolution” in 1864.

The documents were with a local family's papers at William & Mary, a university nearby. The lists became the project's Rosetta stone, providing names and regiments of more than 60 soldiers.