Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War.

President James Buchanan sent the unarmed ship Star of the West with 200 soldiers and supplies on January 9, 1861. When it ...

April 1843: a small flotilla of ships are cruising along the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula, which has seceded from Mexico.

It was an opening salvo in what is likely to be the decisive legal battle over the president’s attempts to employ the rarely ...

The simple narrative today of the southern secession in 1860 and 1861 is that the southern states believed that the ...