We followed an original Civil War map to see what time had hidden—and what we found was unforgettable. From bullets to buttons, every relic holds a piece of history. Experience the thrill of discovery ...

Alexandra Park, in Oldham, is a popular Grade II listed park which has a deep history rooted in struggle and served as a ...

Elizabeth Drew, a Washington-based journalist, argues that the capital is more on edge now than at any time since the Civil War in 1860 as Donald Trump tests the constitution in unprecedented ways ...

In an Instagram post on Tuesday night, actor Alec Baldwin claimed that Americans are currently living in a "pre-Civil War" environment. The embattled "Rust" actor told his followers on Instagram ...

Harper’s Weekly, June 3, 1865 They were known as the Special Artists of the Civil ... war for the North, and the rules were often sternly applied. Harper’s Weekly was banned for carrying maps ...

Knowing this, our minds fill in the map with logic ... every decade leading up to the Civil War (the growth rate was a mere 10 percent between 1850 and 1860), by 1810 the South had a free black ...

According to Rachel Shelden, was Civil War inevitable at the time ... How does Rachel Shelden compare the 1860 election to today? Video Clip 12: Electoral Map of 1864 (2:17) Author and history ...

Tensions in American society today have analysts hurriedly investigating the origins of America’s Civil War ... the “inaugural means war.” Southerners felt their 1860 electoral loss was ...

Indeed, many participants on the Confederate side of the Civil War would go on to join the organization, including John C. Breckinridge, a Lexington native who ran for president in 1860 and sided ...

America’s secession winter, the period between Abraham Lincoln’s election in November 1860 and his inauguration ... cascading into civil war and ultimately costing 750,000 lives.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The document in which Abraham Lincoln set in motion the Union's military response to the launch of the U.S. Civil War is now among Illinois' prized papers of the 16th ...