Public domain via Wikimedia Two months before the Civil War ended, a Confederate soldier was tried in a New York City courtroom for espionage—and for trying to burn down the largest city in the ...
In the spring of 1865, Confederate and Union forces were at a stalemate outside the city of Petersburg, Va., about 30 miles to the southeast of Richmond. The Confederate lines there were part of ...
“It’s 2020,” Feagin said. “It’s time to quit celebrating the traitors of the Confederate Army and the Confederate system.” Feagin, whose research interests include racial and ethnic studies, said the ...
The popular “Yellowstone” TV series, set and filmed in Montana, taps into a lesser-known chapter of the state’s history: its settlement by Confederates and ex-Confederates during and after ...