“Democrats wanted to expand slavery into western territories ... That compromise was put into place more than 40 years before the start of the Civil War in 1861. In May of 1854, Democrats ...

A fire that engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, destroying one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses where scores of enslaved Africans labored, has sparked joy and anger onl ...

Matthew J. Clavin tells the story in “Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War.” And it’s a story of when love and honesty met bigotry and hypocrisy head-on.

Before he even took office ... Over 91,000 soldiers from Wisconsin fought in the Civil War, and more than 12,000 gave their lives to help end slavery. Three regiments from Wisconsin served ...

In this first episode of Kings and Generals’ animated series on the American Civil War, we explore the core causes of the ...

Estimates of the market value of slaves before the Civil War vary widely, but they were clearly worth much more than the land they cultivated and may well have accounted for a majority of Southern ...

“but lesser know is the important role New Yorkers and the New York courts played in chipping away at the foundation of slavery before the Civil War.” The inspiration behind the project is to ...

who facilitated the overland escape of freedom-seekers from the slave states to havens in the North and Canada in the decades before the Civil War. The Underground Railroad was more than a ...

After the Lemmons and their slaves found ... Lemmon was never brought before the Supreme Court, though Rosenblatt suspects that increasing violence ahead of the Civil War may have had something ...

Yet, like antebellum slavery, abortion is a question of ... conflicts among the states of a magnitude not seen since before the Civil War.

sacrifice and heritage” before the 2015 shooter “hijacked” it. The Civil War began 1861, sparked largely by debates over slavery in the U.S. It was also fueled by connected tensions over ...