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 ...

Harold Kenneth "H.K." Edgerton, a former president of the Asheville-Buncombe NAACP who became nationally-known for this ...

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 ...

The engraved Georgia memorial is America's largest Confederate monument. Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial, often called “the granddaddy of all Confederate monuments,” is once again at the center of ...

Dixieland’s Favorite Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith Sported Confederate Garb in 2014The GOP senator who keeps saying racially offensive things saw nothing wrong with donning Confederate garb at Jefferson ...

Whether it's viewed as a symbol of a proud past, a symbol of slavery and the Old South, a symbol of service and the honored dead, or a pillar of a beautiful city, people have thoughts about the ...