On the wintry morning of March 11, 1854, Milwaukee abolitionist newspaper editor Sherman Booth received an urgent telegram ...

During debate Wednesday on a state takeover of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, state Rep. Michael Burton, ...

John Adams Knight, whose house sits in Auburn's West Pitch Park, acknowledged that once he backed the North, it was a trying ...

Divided by Steve Sheinkin and Toby Cypress is a YA nonfiction graphic novel set in 1850s Washington DC, in a polarized nation ...

In shaping both the moral cause of abolition and the Confederate justification for secession, the Civil War was not merely a contest over warring economic systems, cultural identities, or ...

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

American history shows that people can express their patriotism in many languages — and they can just as easily express ...

Since 2020, 33 counties in Illinois have held "advisory referenda" on the issue of secession from the state ... seceded from Virginia during the Civil War in order to remain loyal to the Union.

The issues that led to the Nigerian Civil War still bedevil Nigeria today ... you would not be eager to lead a secession in Nigeria. For one to take such an action, something grievous must ...