Fifty-five years of living in the Southeast during which we enjoyed lots of travel resulted in visiting most of the National ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

It would become his calling card, not backing down. Once Grant was brought East, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee faced the ...

University of Mississippi football standout — songwriter subsequently — Jim Weatherly composed his masterpiece after his friend Bruce Majors’ girlfriend Farah Fawcett announced that she was “leaving ...

Let’s hope that Elon Musk is, indeed, a latter-day Grant, doggedly pursuing the spending that strangles our country, ...

The tech oligarch has unleashed his slow-rolling coup d’état across the federal government, and it’s not clear anything can ...

In this captivating group portrait, biographer Leamer (Capote’s Women) spotlights the “artistic muses who helped turn a ...

As a result, despite all the disruptions of the war, Confederates traded thousands of people in the four years between the attack on Fort Sumter in April 1861 and the surrender at Appomattox in ...

Surrender is one of the most essential rules in international humanitarian law. Don't expect it any time soon in the Middle ...

Birthright citizenship is a shield of protection to anyone born in this country, as close to a national self-definition as we ...

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...