This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. As the deadliest war in United States history, the Civil ...

The issue of slavery divided the United States long before the election of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. After the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed in 1854, newly established states could use popular ...

Colorado State University provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. The U.S. citizenship test – which immigrants must pass before becoming citizens of the United States – has this question: ...

The political, ideological, and economic impacts of the conflict were felt around the world, and especially in the nations of France and Great Britain, who had the most to gain or lose in this ...

You want to learn more about the Civil War, right? Of course you do. It is a significant part of U.S. history that continues to impact Americans today. From 1861 to 1865, bloody battles were waged ...

William Faulkner famously wrote, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." That could describe some of the recent historical discourse on the presidential campaign trail. First came Republican ...

Fought from 1861 to 1865 as the nation became diametrically opposed on the issue of the expansion and preservation of slavery, or the abolition of it, the American Civil War remains one of the most ...

Dr. Allen C. Guelzo gives perspective on what the American Civil War was really about. Dr. Allen C. Guelzo the Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar at Princeton University talks about how ...