The statue of Captain John O’Donnell, an 18th century merchant who enslaved dozens of Black people on his Maryland plantation ...

April 9 marks 160 years of the anniversary of when General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House. It was a pivotal moment in American history, and one of the ...

Painter and illustrator Robert E. McGinnis, who created sexy posters for the James Bond franchise as well as numerous other films, magazine illustrations and book covers, died March 10 in Old ...

While metal detecting near the site of the Siege of Port Hudson, we may have uncovered the final moments of a Civil War cavalry officer lost in 1863. From personal relics to battlefield artifacts ...

While metal detecting near the Battle of Port Hudson, we began uncovering Civil War artifacts that now lead us to believe we have found the final moments of a Civil War Cavalry Officer's final ...

A partially destroyed monument to Confederate general Albert Pike in Washington D.C.'s Judiciary Square, targeted by protesters in June 2020. Photo: Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images ...

But this is only a fragment of what lies beneath the surface: among the “emotive detritus”, there’s “pots, combs, coins, bones, bits of cavalry harness, children’s toys, spearheads ...

And in a twist of historical irony, the word cotton — or, more precisely, cotton rebels — was once used to mock the Confederate South in the United States. The Southern economy was built on ...

Matthew Chapman is a video game designer who attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and lives in San Marcos, Texas. Before joining Raw Story, he wrote for Shareblue and AlterNet, specializing ...

North Carolina Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin, who has now spent nearly five months challenging his narrow loss in the November election, wore Confederate military attire as part of a ...

Donald Trump is bringing Confederate statues back. On Thursday, Trump signed an executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity in America” that instructs Vice President JD Vance to ...