But the story of Southern secession provides illuminating evidence that the Jan. 6 insurgency was, indeed, precedented, rooted in long-standing efforts to preempt, delegitimize and suppress Black ...

The New Orleans Bulletin announces the passage of the secession ordinance by the South Carolina Convention and exclaims: "Alas! that the aggressive spirit of Northern fanaticism should have ...

The denials of the right of secession and the denunciations of the Southern people will all have to be eliminated. For years we have held aloft the doctrine of "Liberty and Union, now and forever ...

The Lost Cause posited that secession was based upon the North and, thereby, the federal government, trying to encroach on the tradition, culture, and economy of the Antebellum South. Following ...

But of the foremost pro-slavery agitator, properly so called, even Mr. Rhodes, whose account of Southern society exhibits so conscientious a desire to understand the springs of the secession ...

This proposal got further than any other. It was supported by Southern California residents who thought tax and land laws were unfair. In 1859, the Legislature approved the Pico Act, named after ...

New secession ideas are not unheard of ... El Dorado’s eastern half includes southern portions of Lake Tahoe as well as the city of South Lake Tahoe, and the county shares its eastern border ...