Recipes from a time when Southern infrastructure was a long way from being restored, but families had to keep everyone fed.

That was certainly the case for the October 4, 1865, issue. This was a mere six months after the end of the Civil War, at a time when Southern states were still in rough shape overall. Slavery was ...

This is the historic last Civil War Funeral of Confederate Lt Andrew Jackson Buttram. This is part I of a 2 part series. The ...

Content warning: This piece includes an account of an apparent suicide.

People often don’t realize the revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment, and conservatives in particular downplay its revolutionary nature. American historians have for a long time treated the ...

Fought over three days in March 1865, the Battle of Bentonville in Johnston County, North Carolina, is considered the last ...

The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army ...

History is more than what we learn in textbooks—it’s a living, breathing narrative that continues to shape the present. There ...

The first shots of the trade war between the United States and Canada have been fired. Whether it escalates beyond the ...

The story of President Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train will be the topic for the Vernon County Historical Society’s first ...

The Confederados were descendants of Confederate soldiers who fled the U.S. after the Civil War. After settling in ... to all federal employees The End of American Exceptionalism?