The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee -- severed their ties with the Union. To retain the loyalty of the ...

Even though it’s been 160 years since the Civil War ended, Black Americans are still feeling the effects of the war that ...

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in ...

The Civil War must have been a confusing time for Native Americans. Pushed from the east and relegated to Indian Territory, ...

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

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

History 218—The Road to the United States Civil War starts in the 1780s, after the Continental Army’s defeat of British forces at Yorktown in 1781 and the 1783 signing of the Treaty of Paris to ...