Every single generation is convinced, it seems, that their revolution will work, and their moment is uniquely in need of revolution. This was the belief that drove the Southern states to secede from ...

Once upon a time, the Prince of Wales came to, you might say, a magical place called The Mansion House hotel in Mount Carbon, near. Coal was king, and Queen Victoria sent her 18-year-old son and heir ...

Romney was a quiet town of only 569 people in 1860 and had grown about 25% since the previous census in 1850. The ...

Morgan’s 1,000-mile raid into Indiana and Ohio was a costly mistake for the Confederate Army. His history in Lexington ...

Signs posted at Fort Moultrie and Fort Sumter ask visitors to report any information they experienced that may place American ...

School – and the federal government's role in it – has been a topic of debate in the U.S. since the very first Department of Education was created.

In early and mid-2025, a claim that "only 1.6% of US citizens owned slaves in 1860" resurfaced and circulated widely online, ...

On a farm in Simpsonville, Kentucky, Jake Bryan starts each morning the same way his father, grandfather and ...

Examines the build-up to the Civil War: slavery, the Missouri Compromise, abolitionism, and key events like the Dred Scott decision and the election of Lincoln led to secession. The world’s ...

But Abraham Lincoln opposed slavery when he was elected president in 1860. ... The Civil War ended in 1865 with the defeat of the Confederacy and the abolition of slavery through the 13th Amendment.