Robert E. Lee Memorial Association, Stratford Few figures in American history are more divisive, contradictory or elusive than Robert E. Lee, the reluctant, tragic leader of the Confederate Army, who ...

The CSS “Shenandoah” only learned of the Confederacy’s defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser’s crew sank 24 American merchant vessels, unaware that the conflict had already ended ...

The American Civil War was defined not only by its political and moral issues, but by a series of brutal, high-casualty battles. These conflicts altered the nation’s history and landscape. Fought on ...

The U.S. Capitol has begun displaying a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school.