At the time the Civil War began in 1861, the United States government did not print paper money; it only minted coins. As a historian of the American Civil War, I study how the Confederate government ...

Confederate States of America fifty dollar bill featuring a central image of Jefferson Davis. Inscribed in cursive above the illustration is the sentence, [Two Years after the / Ratification of a ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Between the winter of 1860 and the ...

Kevin Willmott’s satirical fantasy, C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, embraces the fictions that the South won the Civil War (better make that “the War of Northern Aggression”), that ...

Harold Kenneth "H.K." Edgerton, a former president of the Asheville-Buncombe NAACP who became nationally-known for this defense of the Confederate battle flag and "Southern civil rights," died on Jan.

Confederate Memorial Day is observed in South Carolina, as well as a few other states. The holiday commemorates Confederate soldiers who died in the Civil War. Observances include battle re-enactments ...