Although the precise number remains elusive, and at time when the U.S. population was about one-tenth its present count, around 750,000 lives were lost over the idiocy of slavery. According to some ...

Dozens of amendment proposals circulated in Congress at the end of the war. The first priority was to end slavery itself. Abraham Lincoln’s wartime Emancipation Proclamation had announced ...

Over 91,000 soldiers from Wisconsin fought in the Civil War, and more than 12,000 gave their lives to help end slavery. Three regiments from Wisconsin served in the Iron Brigade — the 2nd ...

The Union's victory in the Civil War was a costly one and after General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House in April 1865, the country had a long road ahead to mend the destruction ...

Keywords Civil War, Reconstruction, Andrew Johnson, radical Republicans, ... The film details the implementation of the Freedmen's Bureau, the introduction of the 14th and 15th Amendments, ...

Amy Coney Barrett’s majority opinion used a noise complaint hypothetical to justify letting Trump’s blatantly unconstitutional citizenship order blare on for everyone except the specific plaintiffs ...

Among the unanticipated consequences of the election of Donald Trump has been a surge of interest in post-Civil War Reconstruction, when this country first attempted to construct an interracial ...

In 1963, a century after Gettysburg, Martin Luther King Jr. invoked Lincoln's words and the legacy of the Civil War in calling on the nation to pay its "promissory note" to black Americans, which ...

Fact check: The United States is not the only country to abolish slavery Historians are also in broad agreement that the Republican Party during and after the Civil War was in a politically and ...

Robin Wright talks to five historians specializing in the American Civil War about whether the U.S. is headed for a new sectarian conflict.

President Abraham Lincoln died 150 years ago, just days after Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox, ending the Civil War after four years. To discuss the lasting effects of both events ...