Can you drive the Secessionist into the Fort Sumter trap that gave Lincoln his historic victory? Can you successfully use the issue of States Rights to divide Northern opinion? Fort Sumter let’s you ...

If you think the country is hopelessly divided now, you should’ve seen us 165 years ago today. At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, troops on James Island fired a shell high over Fort Sumter, its explosion ...

As March slipped into April in 1861, America stood at a crossroads. About the only thing the North and South agreed on was that neither wanted to start the American Civil War. If President Abraham ...

One Hundred Sixty Years Ago: On March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln closed his first inaugural address with a clear message to the seven states that seceded from the Union in the wake of his election.

A retired National Parks historian for Forts Sumter and Moultrie, Richard Hatcher opens this new work on the history of Sumter with a look at its origins, as part of the nation’s coastal defense ...

Tensions in American society today have analysts hurriedly investigating the origins of America’s Civil War. Can they glean lessons from that tragic history? Numerous volumes have been written on the ...

OF the great leaders of the war period, none has been so commonly misunderstood and so frequently misrepresented as William H. Seward. This has been chiefly due to an erroneous conception of his ...

On April 12, 1861, Confederate artillery fired the first shots of the U.S. Civil War on Fort Sumter, a Federal stronghold located at the mouth of Charleston Harbor in South Carolina. With the election ...

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