Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

In this new episode of Kings and Generals’ Civil War series, we cover the Battle of Fredericksburg—one of the bloodiest and ...

The human toll of the civil war has been staggering ... there is also the recent precedent of South Sudan’s secession. South Sudan, since seceding from Sudan in 2011, has experienced enormous ...

As president, he oversaw the Second Sudanese Civil War, the secession of South Sudan, and the conflict in Darfur. The Darfur war, which broke out in 2003, was later condemned by the International ...

The American Civil War is no exception ... since the Lincoln administration consistently refused to recognize the secession of Southern states in 1861 as constitutionally legal?

Seven chapters cover Pinckney’s role during the secession crisis and the Civil War (1860-1865). Occasionally housing Union prisoners-of-war, including some men from the 54 th Massachusetts, the castle ...