William Tecumseh Sherman

The federal government has long extended amnesty to white Americans.

The history of Atlanta's first Civil War monument may reveal how to deal with them in the present.

We asked about monuments in your home town. Here's what you said.

More than 150 years after Appomattox, Americans are still fighting over the great issues at the heart of the conflict.

A detailed look at when and where the U.S. Army was able to enforce the new rule of law in the years following the Civil War.