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 ...

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. View Full Article in ...

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 ...

In fact, the first secession crisis wasn’t in the South, as you might think, but in the North. The United States wasn’t even 40 years old when some New England states started eyeing the exit.

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 ...

Secession has long tantalized Texans ... the right to ban semiautomatic weapons and Texas has more control over its southern border. “You’d address the way that the states and the federal ...

America had the largest per capita newspaper circulation in the world at the time of the South's secession, and the war made the nation even hungrier for news. Correspondents headed for the ...