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After three years of careful work, the Louisiana Area Historical Museum in Louisiana, Missouri, unveiled a fully preserved Civil War flag at American Legion Post 370 on Thursday, November 10. The flag had once belonged to Sam Minor before it came to the museum. The unveiling began with a talk by Judy Schmidt on the

In 2016, the state flags that lined a busy tunnel connecting the U.S. Capitol to the House office buildings came down during a construction project. It was not routine redecorating. The change followed months of controversy over state flags with Confederate imagery. In place of the flags, the tunnel now displays each state’s quarter, so

History moves in strange ways. The Confederate ironclad CSS Stonewall never fired a shot for the South, yet she crossed the Atlantic, stared down two Union warships, and ended her career half a world away as Japan’s first ironclad warship. Here is her remarkable story. Built in France for the Confederacy In 1863, Confederate agents

Zebulon Baird Vance is one of the most beloved figures in North Carolina history. Before the war, he was a strong Unionist who worked hard to keep his state in the Union. Then, in a single moment in April 1861, everything changed. A Mountain Man in Congress Vance was born in 1830 in Buncombe County,

Rare film footage from the 1914 reunion of the United Confederate Veterans in Jacksonville, Florida, captures a remarkable moment. Among the gray-haired veterans, a former slave named Jeff Mabry is introduced to the camera. Mabry does not appear to be wearing a uniform, but he proudly wears at least one reunion ribbon, a sign that

Americans who think today’s elections are bitter should look back at 1860. As the presidential election approached that fall, the country was more divided than at any time in its history. In South Carolina, the Charleston Mercury reported that Minute Men were organizing across the state “for any emergency that may arise in the present

In 2016, officials in Charlottesville, Virginia estimated that removing the city’s two Confederate statues, of General Robert E. Lee and General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, would cost about $700,000. The city also faced the risk of legal costs, because Virginia law at the time protected war memorials from being removed. Here is the story of the

Few Americans have been honored by friend and foe alike the way Robert E. Lee was. In life, he was loved by the soldiers who followed him for four hard years. In death, he was mourned across the South and respected by many of the men he had fought against. A Leader His Men Loved