Morgan’s 1,000-mile raid into Indiana and Ohio was a costly mistake for the Confederate Army. His history in Lexington ...

He failed to prevent secession, then retired to his Richmond home. ... Talkov is head of program development and coordinator for Virginia's Civil War exhibit at the Virginia Historical Society.

Some people said it was time for California - a frequently left-leaning, progressive state where Trump got only 38 percent of ...

He also announced that he would restore the names of all Army bases that were named for Confederate generals during the Jim ...

The recent rumblings from downstate Illinois have caught the attention of lawmakers across the border in Indiana, where ...

Bishop sees in the rise of the Republican Party, culminating in Lincoln’s election, the beginning of a Marxist revolution.

Sanford Levinson maintains that a peaceful breakup would be preferable to a divided polity, while Tarence Ray argues that the working class must remain united across state lines.

Lincoln, worried that conciliatory overtures toward the South would appear weak, employed a preinaugural strategy of ‘masterly inactivity.’ ...

History is the polemics of the victor, William F. Buckley once said. Not so in the United States, at least not regarding the Civil War. As soon as the Confederates laid down their arms, some ...

We feature a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people ...

Habeas corpus became a major point of controversy during the Civil War, when President Abraham ... an act that is considered the formal start of the war. A week later, Marylanders supporting secession ...