No doubt it will not be the last. Like their intellectual forbears in the generation before the Civil War, the indifference of officials in Colorado and Maine to the practical consequences ...

creating “American Oregon” and “Real Colorado.” The narration concluded, “The POTUS election collapse is over, but the U.S. breakup and civil war has just begun.” Suddenly thirsty ...

A new Civil War trail sign has been installed in Plymouth to honor African-American soldiers who served in the Civil War. The ...

In the summer of 1863, the U.S. was in the middle of its greatest-ever crisis. A bloody civil war between the Southern Confederacy and the federal government had created hundreds of thousands of ...

There is something in the air, in the streets, and even on our screens in the form of Alex Garland’s recent film Civil War, which imagines a dystopian future – the American presidency has ...

The issue of slavery divided the United States long before the election of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. After the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed in 1854, newly established states could use ...

Most slot nicely into what we remember about the American Civil War from history class, but that last one jumps out. It's something that would fit into a conversation about military capabilities ...

In the American antebellum period, precise and strict rules were recommended for women’s socially acceptable and appropriate behavior. But the Civil War would change the social, economic ...

Author Ken Rutherford provides an overview of his lecture about the early history of landmines, which were used for the first time on a widespread basis during the Civil War. The American Civil ...