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 ...

Black History Month started as "Negro History Week" in February 1926 as a way to chronicle the accomplishments of African ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

The American Civil War (1861–1865) remains one of the most defining chapters in the nation’s past, forging our modern ...