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

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 ...

Though Tubman is most famous for her successes along the Underground Railroad, her activities as a Civil War spy are less well known. As a biographer of Tubman, I think this is a shame.

But 750,000 Americans would be killed before the Civil War ended in 1865. Four years to the day after Sumter fell, Anderson – by then a retired general – returned to raise the American flag ...

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.

A local Civil War veteran and former slave is being honored with a new headstone. Wed, 04 Jun 2025 21:32:18 GMT (1749072738411) Story Infinite Scroll - News3 v1.0.0 (common) ...

Former President Donald Trump on Saturday suggested the Civil War could have been avoided through “negotiation,” arguing that the fight to end slavery in the US was ultimately unnecessary and ...

Civil War remains found at Colonial Williamsburg, archaeologists say. Virginia archaeologists recently came across four skeletons dating back to the Battle of Williamsburg, which was fought in 1862.

“Civil War,” the new film about a near-future United States torn apart by warfare between armed factions and an authoritarian government, has been a box-office hit. But the film, and others ...