Oregon’s conservative eastern counties want to break away from the rest of their deep-blue state and become part of the solidly red state of Idaho. They want President Donald Trump to help make ...

A 90-minute walking tour details the city’s role in promoting slavery throughout the South and the driving force of faith to survive and triumph over it.

Lincoln was a crony capitalist on economic policy, advocating protectionist tariffs, corporate welfare for railroad ...

May the example of the Argentine Confederation serve as a beacon to warn Confederacies further north, and pretending to greater wisdom, from the evils of secession and civil war! Advertisement ...

Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

sees nothing in the past conduct of the Federal Government to justify secession if it were a constitutional ... BREDALBANE, Ky., Jan. 9, 1860.

Video presentations dive deeper into subjects such as secession, Reconstruction, and the Wilmington Race Riot. The museum ...

His book-length study of the statecraft of the sectional and secession crisis of 1860-1861 has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Commission, the Filson Institute, ...

American Revolution; Jeffersonian Ideology and Westward Expansion; Jacksonian Democracy and the Industrial Revolution; the Politics of Slavery and Secession. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Social ...

Douglas, the nominee of the Northern Democrats for President in 1860, the Southern Democrats refused to support ... author of the Declaration of Independence—supported the right of secession and ...

Turney campaigned for John Breckenridge of Kentucky in the hotly disputed election of 1860. That year saw Republican Abraham ... Turney was strongly for secession from the Union and even supported the ...