The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

A Charleston, South Carolina surrender flag, Confederate documents, and Union soldier items among historic Civil War ...

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

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

For several years, the confederate statue in Madisonville has made waves in Hopkins County. Now, enough money has been raised ...

With Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861, author and former editor of The American Conservative ... cause within the union rather than ...

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

Now, 160 years later, 70 Black Union military members who fought ... collaborated with the National Archives and the African American Civil War Museum in Washington, D.C. Once the research was ...

The ACLU asked the Supreme Court to rule on whether the Trump administration can lawfully invoke the Alien Enemies Act for ...