Confederate myths are confronted as John Dunphy pushes back with facts ...
Cole Escola's comedy provides an irreverently anachronistic take on Mary Todd Lincoln and her presidential husband. Read more ...
On Saturday, Oct. 11, a man named Russell Byers died. He lived in Creve Coeur, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. He was 94 years old. He lived a rich and full life. He was a criminal for almost all of ...
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What Remains of the Last Confederate Fort in America

Join us as we visit historic Fort Tyler in West Point, Georgia, the site of a significant yet lesser-known Civil War battle. On April 16, 1865, Union forces launched an attack on this earthen fort—one ...
As a national holiday, Thanksgiving originated as war propaganda. It was Abe Lincoln in November 1863 who made Thanksgiving a ...
The backlash came from across the political spectrum. Historians, preservationists, local officials, and cultural critics ...