President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he was restoring the names of Confederate officers to seven U.S. military bases ...

Some people said it was time for California - a frequently left-leaning, progressive state where Trump got only 38 percent of the vote in last year's election - to leave the United States of America ...

Sanford Levinson maintains that a peaceful breakup would be preferable to a divided polity, while Tarence Ray argues that the ...

John James Davis was shocked to learn that the Virginia Convention had endorsed secession on April 17, 1861. A Clarksburg ...

Iowa native Joseph Welch said, "Have you no decency, sir?" and we need people with his courage today, writes Thomas Doughty.

Harrison Ruffin Tyler was just three generations from the White House, since his father and grandfather both fathered children in their 70s. The chemical engineer helped preserve his family's legacy.

Southern states were already passing resolutions of secession one after another, with South Carolina taking the lead. Meanwhile, the Confederate ... exchange of letters with Alexander Stephens ...

not authority for single-state secession,” he added. Carrillo in his blog post also pointed to a letter penned by former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who said, “If there was any ...

Trump seems inclined to turn the Cold Civil War into a hot one, and that should terrify us. The right leader might not prevent our cultural secession ... please submit a letter to the editor.

Support for secession is most forcefully expressed by ... have the right to secede from the Union. In the wake of the Civil War, the Supreme Court ruled in Texas v. White (1869) that states ...

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 ...