In the South, most slaves did not hear of the proclamation for months. But the purpose of the Civil War had now changed. The North was not only fighting to preserve the Union, it was fighting to ...

“The South was still carrying the burden of the Civil War,” Andrew Young ... his bones as one of Carter’s congressional liaisons before becoming a Washington lobbyist, recalled hearing ...

EDENTON, N.C.—Rod Phillips and Michael Dean, a pair of white 70-something retirees, take opposing sides in the Civil War ...

When war broke out in 1861, kids across the North and the South said goodbye to their fathers, brothers, uncles, and cousins -- or joined the military themselves. As many as 20% of Civil War ...

A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls’ statue should be staring down a notorious white supremacist ...

In 2011, nearly 99 percent of South Sudanese ... and pre-existing ethnic tensions plunged the newly independent state into political turmoil. Tensions erupted into civil war in December 2013 ...

“To speak as the slave would, to say that we are as happy for the Civil War as most Americans are for the Revolutionary War, is to rupture the narrative.” ...