In his first term, one of President Donald Trump’s most embarrassing legislative setbacks centered on the Confederate names of U.S. military bases. This week, Trump used his executive powers to ...

On the eve of anniversaries of the Declaration and the Battle of Gettysburg, it’s time to consider connections between the wars in York County.

Donald Trump announced at Fort Bragg on Tuesday that several military forts will be renamed after Confederate leaders, including Robert E. Lee.

Sanford Levinson maintains that a peaceful breakup would be preferable to a divided polity, while Tarence Ray argues that the ...

The study of American History is often neatly divided between the period of the Civil War and before and the period after the ...

Article I of the U.S. Constitution declares that “the Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.” ...

A dangerous consequence of not knowing our history is not knowing our truth. Many Americans are taught that the Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln on Jan. 1, 1863, […] ...

The simple narrative today of the southern secession in 1860 and 1861 is that the southern states believed that the ...

Secession, had it shivered the Union, would have shivered the Confederacy in its turn. The turbulent spirits that trample on the Federal Constitution, will trample on any other that they may form ...

Likewise, the 1988 Constitution prepared by the Constituent Assembly headed by Justice Anthony Aniagolu(1922-2011) was not available. To be concluded •Teniola, a former director at the ...

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Done at Raleigh, 20th day of May, in the year of our Lord 1861." The following ... assent to and ratify the 'Constitution of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America ...