If violence erupts, that will provide an excuse to send troops to crush "insurrectionists." That strategy might work, but ...

Presidents have invoked this throughout history -- but normally not against the wishes of local leaders except to enforce ...

South Carolina gala marks 150 years after secession, sparks debate on slavery. Dec. 20, 2010— -- It's been 150 years since South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union ahead of ...

On an artificial island 4 miles from downtown stands an unlikely reminder of the cost of national disunion, a granite ...

Just about 166 years ago, on an October night, abolitionist John Brown and his freedom army of 21 slipped away from their ...

The memory of the Civil War collided with modern-day civil rights Monday as protesters targeted a "Secession Ball" commemorating South Carolina's decision exactly 150 years ago to secede from the ...

Sudan’s Finance Minister on Wednesday said his country's oil production dropped from 500,000 barrels a day to less than ...

Benjamin Cohen begins his new book — his 20 th, if you are counting — with a fictional news dispatch from the year 2035. “After years of festering discontent with the direction of politics in ...