Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

William Harvey Carney actions amid some of the most intense combat of the Civil War would earn him the respect of his fellow ...

At the beginning of my book ... What was Congress like in the decades leading up to the Civil War? The paintings from the time show senators in black frocks debating, their fingers thrust into ...

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

For the first half of the twentieth century ... see the country split into two states in 2011. The second Sudanese civil war from 1983 to 2005 killed an estimated two million people, with ...