The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places ... Walt Whitman called it the War of Attempted Secession. Confederate General Joseph Johnston called it the War Against the States.

Lincoln won the presidential election in November 1860. But he would not actually become President until his inauguration on March 4th, 1861 in Washington. During the three months between his ...

The campaign for the secession of Nigeria’s southeast to create a new country of Biafra has been amplified by social media in ...

Members of the Indiana House of Representatives have proposed a bill to establish the Indiana-Illinois Boundary Adjustment ...

Evans said a member of Congress openly talking of secession hasn’t occurred since the Civil War. Additionally, a Civil War-era U.S. Supreme Court decision — Texas v. White — gives states the ability ...

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. Charleston has always been a city that stands for something--a defiant port, a rebellion's ...

and this hasn't been done since the Civil War era. Seven Illinois counties voted by referenda to support secession this past November, bringing the total to 33 counties who have done so.