A small team of social scientists at New York University-Abu Dhabi has conducted what they describe as a more accurate ...

In the South, most slaves did not hear of the proclamation for months. But the purpose of the Civil War had now changed. The North was not only fighting to preserve the Union, it was fighting to ...

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to ... territorial expansion. The South wished to take slavery into the western territories, while the North was committed to keeping ...

The Civil War was a military, cultural, political, and economic milestone in American history. For four years the nation was in a bloody divide that extended from the East Coast to the pioneer West ...

The Civil War between the United States and the Confederacy was fought over the issue of enslavement. Slavery was the ...

Mason's early life was more sedate by comparison ... the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, representing that demarcation between the North and South - and freedom over enslavement.