Letter writer Sheila Bailey is probably accurate that most Southerners fought for their homes and not slavery during the Civil War (“For poorer Southerners, war wasn’t about slavery,” Jan. 8). However ...

Abraham Lincoln pledged in his First Inaugural Address to keep the union together but to allow slavery in the States that had it already Nikki Haley recently downplayed the role of slavery in the ...

Recently, a political controversy was in the news regarding the cause of the Civil War. Republican presidential candidate, and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, was accused of not stating that ...

As to the causes of the Civil War, one question needs to be asked before any other: Is it ever right or moral for one human being to claim ownership of another human being? Read the history of slavery ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley declined on Wednesday night to say that slavery was one of the main causes of the U.S. Civil War, an omission she corrected ...

Nikki Haley on Thursday sought to clarify her comments about the Civil War one day after a voter in New Hampshire called her out for not mentioning slavery as a cause of the war. “I mean, of course ...

She responded it was about “basically how the government was going to run." Presidential hopeful Nikki Haley did not cite slavery as a cause of the American Civil War on Wednesday night when a town ...

Ann Brown, chairwoman of the Alaska Republican Party, was off the mark in defending Nikki Haley’s answer about the cause of the U.S. Civil War. Whether the cause was the moral objection to slavery or ...

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Thursday addressed the backlash to her Wednesday night comments about what she thought was the cause of the American Civil War, during which she ...

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is facing bipartisan criticism after she failed to mention slavery as the cause of the Civil War during a town hall in New Hampshire. Photo: Sophie Park ...