Lincoln was, as usual, astute. The abolitionist movement in the North was led by Christians convinced that God abhorred slavery. Some were willing to end it by any necessary means, including violence.

During the Civil War, the “Rock House,” which was located high on a ridge on the Jackson Road (later Openwood Street and now ...

The first steam engine ship, Diana, was launched on July 12, 1863, and became one of the earliest instances of a ...

More than 100 years after his death, Robert Smalls — a Civil War hero, educator and South Carolina politician — will be ...

The Friends of the Vicksburg National Military Park and Campaign wasted no time beginning work to restore a “historic” ...

Petersburg National Battlefield is located in South-central Virginia. The park offers driving tours of the siege and bat ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (Associated Press) - On this day 10 years ago, South Carolina pulled the Confederate battle flag from its ...

Establishing freedom of religion was a hard-fought success of the American Founding. Today we are still fighting.

Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...

Thursday marks a decade since the Confederate flag that flew over the grounds of the South Carolina State House was ...

Secession has become a fantasy for liberals, fueled by the increasingly large gap in political values between California and ...

In response to the Mother Emanual AME shooting in Charleston, SC, lawmakers and protestors rallied to bring down the ...