American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

South Carolina. Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee -- severed their ...

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to the outbreak of the ... that was central to the conflict. A key issue was states' rights. The Southern states wanted to assert their ...

How much do you know about the Civil War? Our history quiz covers some of the basic Civil War questions that we feel are ...

The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...

The South Haven Historical Association will hold a presentation Tuesday on the role Southwest Michigan played helping slaves ...

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 ...

Even longtime Civil ... War, served in the U.S. Marine Corps, his inspiration for telling about the Marines’ service during the war. About 40% of the Marines’ officers sided with the South ...

During the next 80 years ... plunging the nation into the Civil War – the bloodiest four years in American history. The Civil War devastated South Carolina’s population and economy, but ...

It had been listed in a record of 7,200 silent films classified as "lost" Sonja Anderson During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into ...