Slavery caused the Civil War. More exactly, the economics of slavery caused the Civil War. Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley made news last month when she was asked at a New Hampshire town ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley failed to use the word “slavery” when discussing the cause of the Civil War and the ...

Drawing from narratives of former slaves collected as part of the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), How the Slaves Saw the Civil War presents first-hand testimony in ...

Letter writer Sheila Bailey is probably accurate that most Southerners fought for their homes and not slavery during the Civil War (“For poorer Southerners, war wasn’t about slavery,” Jan. 8). However ...

I was dismayed to read Washington Post columnist Ruben Navarrette’s column “Haley wrong; so are some of her critics" (Friday) chastising Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley and her critics for ...

A living historian brings the past to life for contemporary Americans by portraying historical figures at public events such as our long-defunct Heritage Days festival. Such a person visited my ...

Juneteenth takes place on June 19 each year. The holiday commemorates the end of slavery after the Civil War.

GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley says now that she should have mentioned slavery when she was asked about the cause of the Civil War last week. At a CNN town hall in Iowa Thursday, days before ...

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Robert K.D. Colby, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mississippi, to discuss his new book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South ...

In the spring of 1861, the United States stood at its breaking point. For years, tensions between North and South had ...