Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

The small plaque that stands in Elm Park marks a major contribution that Worcester made in the fight against chattel slavery.

So successful was the Lost Cause propaganda campaign that most Americans forgot the true meaning of the Civil War.

Richard Kreitner’s deeply researched book about the Civil War era illuminates the lives of six Jewish Americans and their ...

“Boy, you can see now that we are in a pre-Civil War culture now,” Baldwin ... age and what life was like back then and cotton and slavery and Lincoln and Robert E. Lee and so forth.” ...

“Boy, you can see now that we are in a pre-Civil War culture now,” the “30 Rock ... and age and what life was like back then, and cotton and slavery,” Baldwin, 66, said.

"And boy, you can see now that we are in a pre-Civil War culture now ... and cotton, and slavery, and Lincoln, and Robert E. Lee and so forth," Baldwin explained. "But I look at the politics ...

Some may have supported slavery because they feared losing the ... For better and, in the case of the pre-Civil War South, for much worse, Jews are no different from anyone else.

In 1860, one year before the Civil War, the market value of U.S. slaves was larger than that of all American railroads and factories. At the time of emancipation in 1863, the estimated value of all ...