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 ...

The Greater Idaho movement intends to break the Beaver State's easternmost counties away and make them part of Idaho, which ...

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 ...

Efforts were made for cooperation, and at last the Convention adjourned after much discussion on a resolution submitting the act to the people the vote on the Secession bill till 12 o'clock to-morrow.

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.

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.” ...

Confederate veterans were present ... The Confederates who lived in the southern states — even those who opposed secession — saw themselves as citizens of their states, yes, but also as ...

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