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.

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

In south-central Illinois, the Macoupin County Civil War Round Table has led an effort to restore both the national and regimental flags of the 122nd Illinois, comprised almost entirely of local men.

DES MOINES (AP) With seven descendants of Iowa Civil War soldiers standing at attention, a restored flag carried into the war by an Iowa regiment was placed on display at the Statehouse. Encased ...

Not so in the United States, at least not regarding the Civil War. As soon as the Confederates laid down their arms, some picked up their pens and began to distort what they had done and why.

War artifacts are typically weapons and uniforms, but occasionally something so strange shows up, that even historians are at ...

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.

"How To Dodge A Cannonball" is, among other things, about the absurdity of the Civil War as experienced by a 15-year-old from Illinois who seeks glory through flag twirling.

Advocates say Georgia's experience with a work requirement for Medicaid should serve as a warning to Republicans in Congress pushing a similar mandate.