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

Back in 1860, the ideas that had emboldened the war were debated in Santa Cruz, through fiery editorials in local and San ...

is regarded as South Carolina's original Ordinance of Secession from the Union. Mrs. Robinson found the paper under the backing of a picture frame she bought at a recent sale. The picture is said ...

The report that the State Convention of North Carolina had unanimously passed an ordinance of secession ... is provided for going out of the old Union. Mr. BADGER thought the difference of ...

Francis Richard Lubbock was born in Beaufort, South Carolina, in 1815 to Dr. Henry and Ann Lubbock. While still an infant, ...

What really led to the American Civil War? This episode investigates the deeper causes behind Southern secession—slavery, ...

The Little Rock True Democrat of May 9, relates the manner in which the secession of Arkansas was ... except occasionally when some well-known Union member would rise and preface his vote with ...

The denials of the right of secession and ... his great love for the South) congratulated the people that the South did not succeed in the attempted withdrawal from the Union.

Explore the American Civil War's history, causes like slavery and states' rights, key events including Gettysburg and ...

The deal achieved "in one fell swoop" the Golden Crescent strategy Asbury had mulled for a decade, giving it a footprint stretching from Baltimore south into North Carolina. David Bishop, an analyst ...