"What was the cause of the United States Civil War?" A voter posed the question to Republican presidential primary candidate and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley at a town hall in Berlin, New ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the Confederate circles he navigated, John Scobell was considered just another Mississippi slave: singing, shuffling, illiterate and completely ignorant of the Civil War going on ...

“A house divided against itself, cannot stand.’ I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.” 37 —Abraham Lincoln The Civil War was about slavery, although both sides ...

Striking down children and adults, women and men, and blacks and whites, smallpox posed a grave threat in Civil War Virginia. “I wonder why nobody has noticed this outbreak until now?” ponders nurse ...

Years before Colin Kaepernick took a knee, these people stood up. Black and white, male and female, enslaved and free, they publicly opposed racism and violence and fought for freedom and equality.

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Robert K.D. Colby, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mississippi, to discuss his new book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South ...

A debate over what started the Civil War has been a hot topic in the past week after former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley was asked about it at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire. President Biden ...

Colorado State University provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. The U.S. citizenship test – which immigrants must pass before becoming citizens of the United States – has this question: ...