Their secession ordinances had been passed three ... The question who fired the first gun is nothing. If the so-called "Confederate States" are not in the Union, then they are a foreign nation ...

down-home Confederate romance. Notions of slavery, segregation, and secession mysteriously disappeared. Southern attitude was no longer Bull Connor but airbrushed Sixties-era resistance ...

A recent column in The Hill also made light of the term, calling the compact theory “a rejected idea of state supremacy used to justify the secession of Confederate states during the Civil War.” ...

Sixty-four years ago, the Estes Park Trail, predecessor to the Estes Park Trail-Gazette, ran columns highlighting the ...

The South did not want Lincoln to be the President. At a meeting in the town of Montgomery, Alabama they formed a new government called the Confederate States of America.

The ballot question, if successful at the polls, wouldn't make the Golden State an independent nation. In fact, some legal ...

In a May 31, 1890, article, Richmond Planet editor John Mitchell, Jr. pointed out that Confederate flags and emblems far outnumbered U.S. flags at the unveiling. “This glorification of States Rights ...

Southerners don't like to admit today that slavery was the cause of secession ... You go to Sons of Confederate Veterans meetings and so on, and they talk about states' rights and economic ...

Winfield Scott, asked him to lead Union forces against the South as tensions rose around Southern secession ... becoming general-in-chief of the Confederate states, Lee surrendered at Appomattox ...