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 ...

“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.

President Donald Trump is being hammered on social media after claiming the Civil War “could’ve been solved” without more than 600,000 people being killed in the conflict.

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

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 ...

How ‘Blackbirders’ Forced Tens of Thousands of Pacific Islanders Into Slavery After the Civil War The decline of the American South’s cotton and sugar industries paved the way for ...

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.

MSNBC's Matthew Dowd compares poor Americans who voted for Donald Trump to poor Whites who defended slave owners during the Civil War.

Hill said that extradition matters have not been as volatile since the pre-Civil War enforcement of fugitive slave laws, which required states without slavery to comply with extradition orders for ...