Charleston, South Carolina became the ignition point for the U.S. Civil War when Confederate forces bombarded Fort Sumter, ...

The ruins of a slave cabin still remain in South Carolina where Harriet Tubman led a raid of Union troops during the Civil War that freed 700 enslaved people.© Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via ...

The clearest picture of what caused the Civil War, I have argued, emerges in the words of some 50 men who served their slave states as secession commissioners in late 1860 and early 1861.

“Civil War,” the new dystopian film about an alternate United States wracked by warfare between armed factions and an authoritarian government, has been a box-office hit. The film reinforces a ...

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Robert K.D. Colby, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mississippi, to discuss his new book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South ...

GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley's answer on 'what caused the civil war' led us to speak with an expert about slavery's role in the conflict.

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley failed to mention that slavery was the cause of the Civil War in a town hall Wednesday, drawing backlash from her Republican and Democratic rivals.

"The Demon of Unrest": Erik Larson on the first shots of the Civil War The ferry ride to the middle of Charleston Harbor can be a journey back in time. In 1860, Fort Sumter, the federal sea ...

Archaeologists at Colonial Williamsburg recently announced the discovery of four Confederate soldier skeletons, revealing a makeshift hospital from the 1862 Battle of Williamsburg.

A local Civil War veteran and former slave is being honored with a new headstone.

Devil's Punchbowl refugee camp for freed slaves during Civil War is misdescribed as 'concentration camp' It is often falsely claimed that "over 20,000 freed slaves were killed in one year" of the ...

A white Illinois teen attaches himself to a regiment of Black Union soldiers in the satirical Civil War novel "How to Dodge a Cannonball." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with author Dennard Dayle about it.