A behind-the-scenes look at the 2 weeks leading up to the firing on Fort Sumter: Part 1
Here’s what happened in April 1861, leading up to the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, which spurred the launch of the American Civil War.
The Forward5d
Why Jews were like everyone else — only more so — during slavery and the Civil War
Richard Kreitner's "Fear No Pharoah" gives an honest account of how Jews resisted, ignored and even championed American ...
EL PAÍS English8dOpinion
Trump’s authoritarian drift pushes the US towards a constitutional crisis
The clash with judges over deportations is the latest in a series of dubious legal measures adopted by the president during ...
'No Name Beach,' a sandbar in the Charleston Harbor, could be renamed for a nearby historic site
"No Name Beach," a sandbar that has grown large enough to connect Fort Sumter and James Island at mid tide and low tide could ...
Texas Public Radio16d
'To bind up the nation’s wounds': How peace came to the Civil War
Traditionally we say the Civil War began at 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, when Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Harbor. And 1,461 days later the Union won the ...
Chattanooga Times Free Press21d
Opinion: Reparations in Washington, D.C., are a bad idea
piloted it past Fort Sumter and surrendered it to a Union blockading squadron. Smalls went on to captain the Planter for the Navy. After the Civil War ended, he used his reward for capturing the ship ...
PBS21d
Ugandan special forces deploy to South Sudan to protect government as civil war fears grow
Civil war erupted in South Sudan in late 2013 when a rift between Kiir and Machar escalated into fighting along ethnic lines. Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, accused a group of soldiers loyal to Machar ...
Newsweek21d
Syria's Civil War Takes Another Deadly, Dramatic Turn
Syria's 14-year civil war has undergone yet another rapid series of shifts, with violence sweeping the west coast homeland of deposed President Bashar al-Assad's minority Alawite Muslim sect and ...
Townhall22d
Reparations Are a Bad Idea
piloted it past Fort Sumter and surrendered it to a Union blockading squadron. Smalls went on to captain the Planter for the Navy. After the Civil War ended, he used his reward for capturing the ...
dailyfreeman.com22d
Cal Thomas: Reparations are a bad idea
piloted it past Fort Sumter and surrendered it to a Union blockading squadron. Smalls went on to captain the Planter for the Navy. After the Civil War ended, he used his reward for capturing the ...
usace.army.mil23d
Forged by fire, the reinvention and modernization of the U.S. Army in the Civil War.
save Fort Pickens outside Pensacola and Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. To the seven states that formed the Confederate States of America on February 18, 1861, at Montgomery, Alabama ...
Republican Herald23d
Pottsville soldier carried Abraham Lincoln from Ford’s Theatre after he was shot on April 14, 1865
On April 15, 1861, after Fort Sumter fell to Confederate Army forces, President Abraham Lincoln issued his call to arms for 75,000 volunteers to serve for three months. Five volunteer companies ...