Confederate monuments were often erected decades after the Civil War, during times of racial tension ... Some cities have chosen to fill the void with art, gardens, or memorials to different ...

The Becket Arts Center is offering an illustrated talk on Civil War-era art on May 21 and an herbal medicine workshop on May 24.

Jefferson Davis was the U.S. Secretary of War who betrayed his country to become the first and only president of the ...

A new Folkways album is one of many offerings for the war sesquicentennial. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings The threat of a Confederate ... events will include a Civil War family day on June ...

The American Civil War is ... to meet and form the Confederate States of America. Even when Davis had his doubts about secession, his mind was entirely made up about the war’s defining ...

While the Civil War was never fought in California, the state nevertheless played a major role in generating pro-Union messages and funding the Union army with gold.