Just up Interstate 10, about 50 miles northwest of San Antonio, stands a monument in a small town that's unlike any monument in Texas. A bell tolls from…

Author Ben H. Winters' best-selling 2016 novel "Underground Airlines" is set in present day, but in an America where Abraham Lincoln never took office and slavery is legal in four states.

Early Wednesday, a bronze statue of Gen. Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was taken down in New Orleans. A statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee is next on the list of monuments to be removed.

The debate over flying the Confederate flag has moved to a private cemetery near certain African-American neighborhoods in San Antonio. The Confederate…

The justices upheld Texas' refusal to issue a license plate bearing the Confederate battle flag, rejecting a free-speech challenge.

This is John Huddleston, the writer and creator of This Week in the Civil War. I want to thank the many professionals at Texas Public Radio for their kind…

This is John Huddleston. The writer, creator of This Week in the Civil War. Since March of 2011, its been my distinct pleasure to write vignettes on the…

Andrew Johnson, Tennessee Unionist, vice president, and president after Lincoln’s assassination favored a liberal Reconstruction policy after the war.…

Ulysses Grant, commander of all Union forces during the war, assumed a similar post in the war’s aftermath and had to deal with both Maximilian and the…

George Armstrong Custer developed a reputation during the Civil War as a flamboyant, yet highly effective Union cavalry commander who personally led his…