The Civil War and secession of the Southern states was about slavery despite what today’s revisionists say. Reading the Articles of Secession will prove that; yet the debate still rages.

The simple narrative today of the southern secession in 1860 and 1861 is that the southern states believed that the ...

The Confederate battle flag became the rallying symbol of that secession. The Civil War ended in 1865. Slavery as an institution ended, but the subjugation of African Americans continued for ...

Virginia Secession Convention: “Resolution 2: African slavery is a vital part of the social system of the States wherein it exists … any interference to its prejudice by the federal authority ...

Southerners fought the Civil War, in part, for “states rights" as well as holding people in bondage. President Lincoln believed he ended the “theory” at Appomattox with the surrender of the ...

If this position of the President's" (alluding to his determination to defend Washington,) "was folly when first announced, it is madness now, when the Government of the Confederate States is ...

Bravo to the writer of “A Civil War history lesson” (Jan. 9, TribLive) for a fascinating, well-researched letter ... why the words “slavery” and “secession” cannot be found in the ...

This month is the 159th anniversary of the late unpleasantness of the 1861-65 period that I prefer to call the War of Secession ... who was shot by a Confederate sharpshooter at the Battle ...

In his Dec. 10 letter, Daniel Mead states ... derived from primary sources such as the Confederate Constitution, firsthand reporting on the Florida Secession Convention and contemporaneous ...

Florida was the third state to secede from the Union during the Civil War. Around 15,000 Floridians ... the "smallest tadpole in the dirty pool of secession." It was too remote and sparsely ...