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

Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

On December 20, 1860, South Carolina seceded; ten other Southern states followed. “Buchanan handled secession abysmally,” says historian Baker. “When South Carolina seceded, he tried to do ...

Four of the bloodiest years in American history begin when Confederate shore batteries under General Pierre G.T. Beauregard open fire on Union-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor on ...

Nor did he think it likely that slavery would spread from the 15 states ... in 1860, he was at last nominated for the presidency, and found the party irretrievably damaged—Southern Democrats ...

It seems as if Tammany Hall, the most well-known example of a “political machine,” has faded into the void at the center of ...

Kings and Generals launches a new animated documentary series on the American Civil War, following the success of their American Revolution coverage. This first installment dives into the road to war, ...

The Trump administration’s revocation of student visas and, in separate action, termination of students from a tracking system for foreign scholars, has spread to the South. Public and private ...

Even leaders of the two groups pushing for the split from Illinois insist they don’t want to become part of Indiana, at least ...