On this day in 1861, delegates from six states that had seceded from the Union met in Montgomery, Ala., to establish a unified government, which they named the Confederate States of America. Five days ...

Editor’s Note: Gordon Rhea is an attorney based in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, and an author of books on the history of the Civil War. He has lectured on military history at the U.S. Army Training ...

THE time for the ideal history of the tragic episode of the Confederacy is not yet, but it is near. We are fifty years removed from the last gunshot. That luminous clarity with which sympathetic ...

Dylann Roof’s writings were alarming enough, but a photograph of the white supremacist holding a Confederate battle flag and a handgun was hauntingly prescient. In June 2015, Roof gunned down nine ...

IN one of Mr. W. E. Henley’s hospital poems, a sailor, “ set at euchre on his elbow,” tells in twenty lines what he saw from the wharf at Charleston when he was there off a blockade runner, near the ...

A statue of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, lies on the ground in Richmond after protesters pulled it down on Wednesday. (Parker Michels-Boyce/AFP/Getty Images) It should have happened ...

Even after Confederate commander Robert E. Lee surrendered in Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, one Confederate army refused to acknowledge defeat and for months stubbornly fought on ...

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John Savage is an independent journalist based in Austin, Texas. He can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter. In July 2015, with national controversy over displays of the Confederate flag at ...

Dylann Roof’s writings were alarming enough, but a photograph of the white supremacist holding a Confederate battle flag and a handgun was hauntingly prescient. In June 2015, Roof gunned down nine ...