So successful was the Lost Cause propaganda campaign that most Americans forgot the true meaning of the Civil War.

What we think of today as the Confederate flag remains a symbol of white supremacy and antigovernment ideology.

Everyone knows about the Civil War, but what about these 12 other secession movements? From the Pacific Northwest combining ...

If the Right were to win, America 4.0 would be a leaner, market-driven republic in which power and responsibility for retirement income and healthcare would shift from Washington to states and ...

If the justices take up a case on Virginia’s felon disenfranchisement law, they’ll be burrowing back to Reconstruction-era ...

The Kings and Generals animated documentary series returns with a powerful new chapter: the American Civil War. Building on ...

A conversation with legal historian Mary Ziegler on her new book about the anti-abortion movement’s fight to establish ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 19, 1775, British troops faced off against colonial militias in the Massachusetts ...

A smattering of high-stakes elections so far in 2025 has reignited election fever. Yet the year’s banner race is still to ...