Donald Trump is waging war on the civil service in the name of efficiency. But Washington created the modern civil service to make the government efficient in the first place, ending a patronage ...

The Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, had fallen into Union hands on April 2, 1865. Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia were forced to flee, but soon found themselves cut off ...

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The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...

One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has introduced the world to many amazing superheroes. Many of these heroes took time to hit it ...

Born Again trailer reveals Matt Murdock gave up his vigilante life. Comics history shows someone else picked up Daredevil’s ...

The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army ...

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man doesn't take place in the MCU but could feature alternate-universe versions of heroes ...