On a basic level, the Civil War was little more or less than 11 states violently seceding from the Union after the 1860 election because they opposed the victorious candidate, Republican nominee ...

COLUMN | ON POLITICS. Son of the South: How Jimmy Carter Ended the Civil War After 100 years of segregation, an integrationist from Georgia brought a new vision to the old Confederacy.

When Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant after the Battle of Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, the South’s defeat in the Civil War had been all but assured. But as author Kidada ...

In Trump’s assault on democracy, we were in a new Civil War with a new Lost Cause around the “stolen” election of 2020. Once again Catholics were on the wrong side of history.