And though the fighting was concentrated in areas around the border between Southern slave states ... war were attributed to factors like disease, starvation, and accidents. (These are the ways ...

The Civil War had begun ... the loyalty of the remaining border states -- Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri -- President Lincoln insisted that the war was not about slavery or black ...

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to the outbreak of the ... that was central to the conflict. A key issue was states' rights. The Southern states wanted to assert their ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America.

The Trump administration’s arguments against birthright citizenship for all are ahistorical, and make no sense when ...

A clash between Texas and the Biden administration over who controls the Texas-Mexico border continues ... popularized by Confederate states during the Civil War era and supported by Confederate ...

Maryland calls itself the Free State, but it was in no hurry to give up slavery during the Civil War. Elsewhere in the ... and that included border states such as Maryland," said Christopher ...