A living historian brings the past to life for contemporary Americans by portraying historical figures at public events such as our long-defunct Heritage Days festival. Such a person visited my ...

Lincoln was right about secession before he was wrong. In 1848 he correctly supported the idea of secession noting that it was for "anyone" and did not require ...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, wants a "national divorce." In her view, another Civil War is inevitable unless red and blue states form separate countries. But all this ...

It was only a matter of time before Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene—a peddler of far-right conspiracy theories, a speaker at white-nationalist rallies, a supporter of political violence, and an ...

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley defended states’ rights to secede from the United States, South Carolina’s Confederate History Month and the Confederate flag in a 2010 interview with a local ...

Trump and Biden supporters clash in St. Paul, Minnesota, after the 2020 presidential election results were announced. (Joshua Lott/The Washington Post) If you’re obsessing over the meaning of polls ...

Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 2023. Pp. vi, 255. Illus., notes, index. $30.00 paper. ISBN: 0813198461 War, Reconstruction, and Vengence On the ...

Explore the Civil War era, from slavery and secession to major battles, emancipation, and the conflict’s lasting impact on the United States.