Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

Richard Kreitner’s deeply researched book about the Civil War era illuminates the lives of six Jewish Americans and their ...

Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith seeks to whitewash history in the name of an anti-intellectual celebration of American greatness.

Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith (R) said the compromise ultimately helped end slavery, while historians generally agree it reinforced the power of slave states.

Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith is facing backlash for sharing a debunked conservative argument that the Three-Fifths ...

Columnist: "Some brave settlers in Nebraska City and Falls City helped 'freedom seekers' escape enslavement during the late 1850s and into the Civil War." ...

"But you always heard a common refrain from the state’s business community: Our income and property tax rates are so high," writes columnist Paul Hammel.

After the Civil War, 18 veterans of the United ... where everyone was free. It is believed to be the only village in the United States founded by formerly enslaved soldiers.

The embattled "Rust" actor told his followers on Instagram that after arriving home from his trip abroad, without any "explicable provocation," he decided to watch Ken Burns' "The Civil War" on PBS.

Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith warned against Democrats' "revisionist history" on the Three-Fifths Compromise and defended a ...