Civil War

In the years following the Civil War, a plan to move the nation's capital to St. Louis won significant support. Journalist Livia Gershon discussed her new piece in Smithsonian Magazine on St. Louis on the Air.

Journalist Connor Towne O’Neill’s “Down Along With That Devil’s Bones” tells the story of the afterlife of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest by exploring the battles raging over monuments to him in four places: Selma, Ala.; and the Tennessee cities of Murfreesboro, Nashville and Memphis.

This Thursday, Harris-Stowe State University and the Missouri Humanities Council are commemorating some of the city’s past residents in a new Civil War…

The legacy of fugitive slave provisions in the antebellum United States is often lost in contemporary retellings of the history of slavery.Andrew…

In a race against the bulldozers and cranes, a Saint Louis University history professor and a handful of students are conducting an archeological dig in…

Former St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay said he’d take down the Confederate Memorial in Forest Park in 2015. That didn’t happen, so it fell to Mayor Lyda…

"Why does the Civil War still hold sway over St. Louis and Missouri?”That was the intriguing — and very large — question that Steve Flick submitted to…

An alderman from the central corridor has launched an effort to remove a commemoration of the Civil War from Forest Park.The full text of 28th Ward…

The elm and oak trees have grown tall with age in Section 57 of Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in south St. Louis County. It’s a quiet place, where…

John Keene’s short story collection “Counternarratives” reimagines popular stories in American literature from the African-American perspective. His…