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

Although John F. Kennedy was the youngest man to be elected President in 1960 at the age of 43, Theodore Roosevelt became the ...

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

Just weeks before Charleston fell 160 years ago today, Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery. And now, in the very city that had championed the cause of bondage, formerly ...

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 ...

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

He remained loyal to the United States, notwithstanding the secession of his State ... Governor of Prince of Wales 1860, died in London, aged 53 years. 19. -- BIDWELL, DANIEL D., ...

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

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, ...

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 ...