The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee -- severed their ties with the Union. To retain the loyalty of the ...

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

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

Civil War historians in Lackawanna County are looking to bring back a piece of history thought to be lost decades ago.

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A judge challenging the outcome of his North Carolina Supreme Court race was photographed wearing Confederate military garb ...

In the podcast, a professor at Asbury University explores the complicated history of a Confederate Civil War monument wearing ...

In the early years of the Civil War, Knight ran the only pro-Union newspaper published in ... mention the growing political division between North and South for weeks. Nor did it take sides ...

Many Americans are proud of their ancestry, most being able to trace family trees back to a certain country, a certain event, ...