This episode explores the beginnings of the American Civil War, from deepening divisions over slavery to the firing on Fort ...

This US state saw some 50% of the nation's Civil War casualties. Now, mass construction of AI data centres is encroaching on ...

The Civil War thus becomes the hinge moment, in which the United States ceases to be the simple constitutional union of 1787 and moves toward being a complex center-driven bureaucratic state.

The Civil War started in April 1861 and raged for over four years. From Fort Sumter to Appomattox and beyond, here are the most basic facts you need.

“Civil War,” the new film about a near-future United States torn apart by warfare between armed factions and an authoritarian government, has been a box-office hit. But the film, and others ...

“America is rushing headlong into another civil war, and it’s a matter of when, not if,” Christopher Sebastian Parker, a UC Santa Barbara political science professor, told the Guardian in an ...

If America succumbs to a second civil war or other widespread political violence, the answers to those questions will become the dividing line. As the truism goes, no one hates like family.

To glimpse the coming dismemberment of the United States of America, just stop by your local bookstore. “How Civil Wars Start” by Barbara F. Walter, one of the most-discussed titles of the ...

In January 1972, when I was a 13-year-old boy in Dublin, my father came home from work and told us to prepare for civil war. He was not a bloodthirsty zealot, nor was he given to hysterical outbursts.

And that I don’t see happening in the United States any time soon. But I do think Tim is right to say that we look like we are in the range of low-intensity civil conflict. And I’m not sure we ...