The American Civil War (1861–1865) remains one of the most defining chapters in the nation’s past, forging our modern ...

But in 1861, the American Union fell apart ... At the end of the civil war, the United States defeated the Confederate States and took control of the 11 states which were lost, and with the ...

Most folks will tell you the Civil War began April 12 ... a week after South Carolina seceded from the United States. State representatives had met both before and after the secession vote ...

Carter G. Woodson, who started the precursor to Black History Month, wrote of Cincinnati’s Black history before the Civil War ...

Politics / Coming to terms with this reality will allow us to strengthen and maximize the full power and potential of our ...

After the Civil War, the Constitution was amended to consider every baby born in the US an American. Soon that may change.

of the Constitution of the United States, it is declared that: "Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them ... can be committed in civil society; since ...

When the Civil War started in the spring of 1861, Tubman put aside her fight against slavery to conduct combat as a soldier and spy for the United States Army. She offered her services to a powerful ...

After President Donald Trump signed an executive order to change the meaning of the 14th Amendment to end “birthright ...

3 How does the story of the United States Colored Troops challenge traditional Civil War narratives ... signed letter he wrote in June of 1861 just as the war was kicking off, a Hoosier soldier ...

The "Rapid Support Forces" and its allies are one side in a largely hidden but vicious civil war that has ... were barred from entering the United States. The war has left "638,000 Sudanese ...

Jan. 8 (UPI) --The United States has accused Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and proxy militias of committing genocide in the Northeast African nation's nearly 2-year-old civil war.