Relatively few people are aware that during the Civil War, Confederate leaders put forth a proposal to arm slaves to fight against the Union in exchange for their freedom. In his new book Confederate ...
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What the Civil War’s ocean and river battles reveal about strategy
While most people picture infantry lines and battlefield charges, the Civil War’s naval battles were just as critical.
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When Confederate-glorifying monuments went up in the South, voting in Black areas went down
Confederate monuments burst into public consciousness in 2015 when a shooting at a historically Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, instigated the first broad calls for their removal. The ...
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 ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Hundreds of Civil War relics were unearthed during the cleanup of a South Carolina river where Union troops dumped Confederate military equipment to deliver a demoralizing blow ...
We’re taught in school that the American Civil War ended when Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865 — 160 years ago Wednesday. In fact, reality was ...
It’s that time of year again, when we are all reminded that the state of South Carolina and eight of the state’s 46 counties actually close government offices and give non-essential employees a day ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Lawsuits filed to stop the removal of memorials to Confederate leaders and a pro-slavery congressman in a South Carolina city have been dropped. The Post and Courier reports ...
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley defended states’ rights to secede from the United States, South Carolina’s Confederate History Month and the Confederate flag in a 2010 interview with a local ...
The Confederacy’s theory of victory at the start of the Civil War was straightforward — so logical, the historian Emory M. Thomas writes in “The Confederate Nation: 1861 to 1865,” that “the ...
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The violence broke out after the losing side in a presidential election refused to accept their defeat. In other words, the South and its supporters engaged in large-scale psychological manipulation ...
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