In the South, most slaves did not hear of the proclamation for months. But the purpose of the Civil War had now changed. The North was not only fighting to preserve the Union, it was fighting to ...

The North wanted to block the spread of slavery. They were also concerned that an extra slave state would give the South a political advantage. The South thought new states should be free to allow ...

The N.C. History Center on the Civil War, Emancipation & Reconstruction is hosting a two-day symposium for educators in ...

We have an income tax as opposed to a tariff in part to deal with the mind of the South in 1913—yet the income tax revenue enabled revenue-destructive tariffs.

Robert Colby is a historian at the University of Mississippi. His first book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil ...

Fighting around Sudan’s largest oil refinery has set the sprawling complex ablaze, sending thick, black polluted smoke over the country’s capital, Khartoum.