MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WCSC) — Delegates from South Carolina and six other states gathered in Montgomery, Alabama, to create the Confederate States of America on this date 165 years ago. Mississippi Sen.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Between the winter of 1860 and the ...

At the time the Civil War began in 1861, the United States government did not print paper money; it only minted coins. As a historian of the American Civil War, I study how the Confederate government ...

In 1999, the Texas Senate formally recognized April as Confederate History and Heritage Month, encouraging Texans to learn ...

When protesters began tearing down Confederate statues and markers in the summer of 2020, Walter Williams objected to what he ...

David B. Parker is a Professor of History at Kennesaw State University, where he teaches courses on, among other things, ...