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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

William Faulkner famously wrote, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." That could describe some of the recent historical discourse on the presidential campaign trail. First came Republican ...

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 ...

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 ...

Let's talk about how the woman responsible for bringing down the Confederate flag in her state became the woman who failed to identify slavery as the cause of the Civil War. Of course, we're talking ...

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' ...

Former South Carolina governor and presidential hopeful Nikki Haley was responsible for bringing down the Confederate flag in her state — but... Nikki Haley went from Confederate flag removal to ...