A controversial flag which some say cost them their jobs is ready to go on display at a Springfield museum. Here's what you ...

The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

The first, local Flag Day observances came after the Civil War and eventually a federal law designated June 14 as Flag Day in ...

This simple dish towel was used as a flag of truce by Confederate troops during Gen. Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, and is now on display at the ...

A white Illinois teen attaches himself to a regiment of Black Union soldiers in the satirical Civil War novel "How to Dodge a Cannonball." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with author Dennard Dayle about it.

Among the orders issued as Union troops arrived in Texas at the end of the Civil War was one declaring that all enslaved ...

A ceremony to honor Jefferson County’s last Civil War veteran was held recently at the Brookville Cemetery, when a special ...

In the Civil War, Union cavalry under Judson Kilpatrick and David Gregg rode on county roads in late June 1863, a total of 6,500 troopers. Mounted Confederates under Jeb Stuart’s command totaled ...

Danielle Khalaf, a 14-year-old student, alleged that she was humiliated by a teacher for refusing to stand for the Pledge of ...

“They all had standard, Union buttons, plus shoulder buttons most Civil War uniforms didn’t have. One soldier wore a canvas-topped, baseball shoe, so we thought it was a city unit.