Even though Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee shook hands at Appomattox Court House in 1865, it seems that arguments over the Civil War will never end. And no bigger argument about America’s internal ...

Letter writer Sheila Bailey is probably accurate that most Southerners fought for their homes and not slavery during the Civil War (“For poorer Southerners, war wasn’t about slavery,” Jan. 8). However ...

As to the causes of the Civil War, one question needs to be asked before any other: Is it ever right or moral for one human being to claim ownership of another human being? Read the history of slavery ...

Ann Brown, chairwoman of the Alaska Republican Party, was off the mark in defending Nikki Haley’s answer about the cause of the U.S. Civil War. Whether the cause was the moral objection to slavery or ...

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley was asked at a recent campaign event in New Hampshire about what caused the Civil War. Haley replied that the cause "was basically how government was ...

Pt. 1: The "slave power" and the "Black Republicans": "The great slave power conspiracy" -- The record of the slave power -- "Where will it end" -- The folly of the South -- The thirty years' ...

Editor’s Note: Karen Finney is a CNN political commentator. She was senior spokesperson and senior advisor to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016. The views expressed in this ...

JAMESTOWN — Local historian James Lutzweiler will present this month’s First Thursday History Program at the Jamestown Public Library at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. Lutzweiler will discuss two seemingly ...

Both the Union and the Confederacy believed God was on their side, using faith to justify their respective causes. Tyler Rice of Columbus, Ohio is a freelance historian specializing in religion and ...