Carter G. Woodson, who started the precursor to Black History Month, wrote of Cincinnati’s Black history before the Civil War ...

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 ...

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to the outbreak of the ... especially laws interfering with the South's right to keep slaves and take them wherever they wished.

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

The Civil War was a military, cultural, political, and economic milestone in American history. For four years the nation was in a bloody divide that extended from the East Coast to the pioneer West ...

Most folks will tell you the Civil War began April ... a week after South Carolina seceded from the United States. State representatives had met both before and after the secession vote with ...

The Winter program of the Chattahoochee Valley Historical Society (CVHS) will be held virtually at 3 p.m. EST on Sunday, ...

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.” ...