Trump's crackdown on immigrants bears alarming parallels to the fugitive slave obsessions of the pre-Civil War South.

John James Davis was shocked to learn that the Virginia Convention had endorsed secession on April 17, 1861. A Clarksburg lawyer, he was devoted to the Union and believed the decision was wrong. A few ...

Internment camps; raids in schools, hospitals, and churches; and a “small army” of private citizens—efforts are underway to ...

The study of American History is often neatly divided between the period of the Civil War and before and the period after the ...

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

But for the Idaho Freedom Foundation, now under the leadership of former Rep. Ron Nate, it seems that Pride is a time to ...

A dangerous consequence of not knowing our history is not knowing our truth. Many Americans are taught that the Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln on Jan. 1, 1863, […] ...

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

The southern parts of the United States, particularly Georgia and South Carolina, possess a unique charm that captivates many ...

Two orphaned brothers headed west in search of adventure and a new life.  The story is common in the annals of the frontier. ...

Harrison Ruffin Tyler was just three generations from the White House, since his father and grandfather both fathered ...