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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shortly after Robert Smalls met with President Abraham Lincoln, War Secretary Edwin Stanton allowed 5,000 former slaves to fight for the Union Army during the Civil War. (Wikimedia Commons) As ...

In this first episode of Kings and Generals’ animated series on the American Civil War, we explore the core causes of the conflict - including slavery, westward expansion, economic tensions, and ...

Mississippi's own documents from 1861 show the state seceded from the Union to protect slavery, not states' rights. Where did Lost Cause come from?

Paul G. Summers, a lawyer, is a former appellate and senior judge, district attorney general, and the attorney general of Tennessee. Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the ...

South Carolina observes Confederate Memorial Day and it is even a state holiday. Here's why it is still around.