Erie County native Strong Vincent's heroism on July 2, 1863, at the Battle of Gettysburg is not where he first distinguished himself as a commander.

The Battle of Gettysburg, fought on the first three days of July in 1863, resulted in more than 51,000 total casualties (dead, wounded, missing, captured), including more than 7,000 dead, yet it began ...

Hopefully, Sen. Thom Tillis is warning Republican colleagues about potential political ramifications as a ploy to get them to ...

Meanwhile, the United Nations is warning South Sudan is on the brink of a renewed civil war as fighting escalates between government forces and a rebel militia known as the White Army.

UNITED NATIONS — South Sudan is teetering on the edge of renewed civil war, the top U.N. official in the world’s youngest nation warned on Monday, lamenting the government’s sudden ...

Uganda has deployed an unknown number of troops to South Sudan in a bid to protect the fragile government of President Salva Kiir as a tense rivalry with his deputy threatens a return to civil war ...

New Civil War research armed with more data gives the fullest picture yet of not just the overall death toll but its disproportionate impact on the South, including Georgia.

There was this brief period after the Civil War into the mid-1870s, when Reconstruction ended, that saw a flowering of Black literacy. But after that came the long period of the Jim Crow South that ...

Library of Congress South Carolina plans to erect a statue honoring Robert Smalls, a man who escaped slavery to become a Civil War hero and a lawmaker.

Anew Winthrop University poll found 47 percent of South Carolinians believe a second civil war likely. It's a stark indicator of growing division and unrest.