This week marks the anniversary of the greatest battle in the United States’ Civil War. That battle, at Gettysburg, was ...

The American Civil War is a pivotal and ugly moment in American history, but it's more misunderstood than you would think. We're breaking down some myths about Lincoln, women soldiers, racist ...

The premise of this paper is that the current governance structures in both the Republic of Sudan and the Republic of South Sudan have not merely failed but have become the primary drivers of human ...

Between 1861 and 1865, the Union, or northern states, and the Confederacy, or southern states, fought each other in the American Civil War. A major dispute over slavery was the primary cause of ...

Florida was the smallest of the 11 Confederate states, with 140,000 residents, 60,000 of them slaves. About 15,000 Floridians fought, the largest percentage of any southern state.

They say the older you get, you either become someone who smokes meat or someone who gets into the Civil War. Well, I feel like I'm more of a WWII guy, but I've been known to dabble in America's ...

Yes, the 11 Southern states that made up the Confederacy during the Civil War seceded from the U.S. following the election of Abraham Lincoln, who was against slavery.

Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861, by Robert W. Merry.Simon & Schuster, 528 pages. With Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South ...

My purpose is to encourage you to be extra vigilant in guarding against Trump’s further use of these three pretexts to erode ...

Southern states had stood in the way of recognizing Liberia since its independence in 1847, arguing that it would be inappropriate for the U.S. to host a Black diplomatic representative in Washington.

More than 200 people across a half-dozen southern states have reported witnessing a fireball streak across the sky, and NASA ...

Confederate Memorial Day is observed in South Carolina, as well as a few other states. The holiday commemorates Confederate soldiers who died in the Civil War. Observances include battle re ...