When we think of the American Civil War, the division between Americans in the North and the South comes to mind. But it ...

Tubman's 1863 raid, which destroyed seven plantations along the Combahee River in South Carolina and freed 756 enslaved ...

Bob Dylan — or Bobby Dillon, according to an article — performed in Mississippi, where he sang in honor of Medgar Evers.

The indispensable Richard Rushfield of the always-great The Ankler highlighted the absolutely dire state of original ...

- Jeff is one of the great American narrative historians. ... There was one day on The Civil War when we decided to take Shelby Foot to a battlefield.

He began investigating his father’s involvement in the civil rights movement in the South, which led him to learn about unpunished racist murders and other violent incidents from the time. In 2005, an ...