Fort Sumter has been added to the Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, highlighting a less understood aspect of the South ...

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He had experience in Congress as both a representative and senator, and had been secretary of war under President Franklin ...

To experience one of the most significant sites in America's long and storied history, tourists should take a trip to South ...

How could Americans be such nice and decent people and support someone so debasing, so deranged, so hate-filled? It was the ...

The tale begins with Bell in Washington, D.C., “awaiting orders, thermometer 110° in the shade.” More than anything, he wants ...

Abraham Lincoln of Illinois was elected President of the United States of America on November 6, 1860, for a four-year term. One year later, on November 6, 1861, Jefferson Davis of Mississippi was ...

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The ship’s pilot helped his family reach freedom, then served in the Civil War and in the U.S. Congress. Robert Smalls’s ...