The Georgia chapter of a Confederacy group has filed lawsuits against a state park over an exhibit on slavery, segregation, ...

Stone Mountain Park has the world's largest Confederate monument, a mural carved into rock depicting Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson.

What started as an effort to promote racial unity in Edenton by reconsidering its most prominent downtown symbol has done the ...

The Sons of Confederate Veterans allege the park’s changes to its Civil War history exhibits violate state law.

On July 18, 1863, one of the first all-Black army regiments to serve in the Civil War stormed Fort Wagner in South Carolina.

A downtown monument has been updated with the names of 30 Black soldiers from Jacksonville who fought for the Union.

On Thursday, Samuel H. Bogenrief, a farrier with the 17th Illinois Calvary during the Civil War, received a proper farewell.

The story behind Thomas O’Dea's harrowing drawing of the Confederates' Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Memorial Day events will be held at the site this weekend.

Dennis said Memorial Day’s potency diminished somewhat with the addition of Armistice Day, which marked World War I’s end on Nov. 11, 1918. Armistice Day became a national holiday by 1938 and ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — In Chesapeake, the lives and legacies of Afro Union Civil War soldiers were honored Thursday, making sure that those who served our country are not forgotten. More than ...

Celebrations of Juneteenth, the new federal holiday that honors the emancipation of enslaved people in Texas, are growing ...

An intensely emotional but orderly throng of more than 200,000 demonstrators-their leaders shouting "the time is now"-Wednesday staged America's biggest civil rights rally beneath the brooding ...