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 ...

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

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.