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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Coming to terms with this reality will allow us to strengthen and maximize the full power and potential of our nation—the one dedicated to the proposition of equality.

Southern textbooks altered historical facts in lessons about the "War Between the States," cities ... Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House in Virginia on April 9, 1865, to Union Gen.

In the middle of the war, the Smalls founded the York Benevolent Association, initially aiding widows and orphans of military men and later the poor. After Appomattox, the Smalls founded York ...