This story is part of The Confederate Reckoning, a collaborative project of USA TODAY Network newsrooms across the South to critically examine the legacy of the Confederacy and its influence on ...

Tucked in the back of the Memphis National Cemetery is a piece of Tennessee and U.S. history that is often forgotten. Under two stately trees, more than 100 Black U.S. soldiers are buried. Those ...

On April 12, 1896, General Nathan Bedford Forrest led 2,500-3,000 Confederate troops to overtake Fort Pillow, in southwest Tennessee, located 40 miles north of Memphis. A garrison of 600 union ...

SIKESTON, Mo. -- A Sikeston history teacher's second book will offer a different view of a controversial Civil War battle. Rick Justice has been Civil War enthusiast for decades. The book, which ...

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On the C-SPAN Networks: Louise Rieke is a Host for the Southern Festival of Books with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2005 Speech. Andrew Ward talked about his book ...

In 1867, former Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest became the first Grand Wizard of a newly formed organization called the Ku Klux Klan. Forrest had been a slave trader before the Civil War; ...

RIVER RUN RED: Andrew Ward, Viking, 391 pages, $29.95. A prize-winning historian from Seattle pens a meticulously researched, yet dramatic and readable revisionist account of one of the most ...

Let us all be grateful that we have colored troops that will fight / John David Smith -- An ironic route to glory : Louisiana's native guards at Port Hudson / Lawrence Lee Hewitt -- Battle on the ...

That I have just recently learned of the Fort Pillow massacre isn't surprising. Our Civil War isn't something that interested me much when I was younger. When I did eventually start thinking of that ...