The largest pre-Civil War mansion in all of the American South burned to the ground as a devastating fire ripped through the historic wooden structure built nearly 200 years ago. Flames broke out ...

With Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861, author and former editor of The American Conservative Robert W. Merry picks up where he left off ...

The American Civil ... The story of the Civil War is all about division within one’s own country. But the schisms ran deeper than just North against South—there were also cracks within the ...