After decades of simmering tension between Northern and Southern ... the states with the most Civil War battles. States were ranked by the number of conflicts that took place there during the ...

The 1850s and 1860s in America saw the rise of the “sentimental domestic idea.” Women were held up as examples of purity, piety, and submissiveness. In the American antebellum period, precise ...

Meigs, future Quartermaster General for the Union Army during the Civil War, received the mission ... interests of the South, since the Southern states depended on slavery to maintain their ...

Virtually all of the Civil War was fought on Southern soil, though Union forces suffered more casualties. The Southern states of Virginia ... Gettysburg alone than during the Revolutionary ...

You’ve probably heard this one: Before the Civil War, Americans felt a stronger allegiance to their state than to the country as a whole. That’s why people said “The United States are ...

Florida was the third state to secede from the Union during the Civil ... the southern states. But in 1860, the tiny state was fiercely southern — and played a much larger role in the war ...

Polk; and both the Union and the Confederacy were internally divided during the Civil War ... before the war, Southern and Eastern Europeans had immigrated to the United States in unprecedented ...

As Rhett Butler pointed out in "Gone with the Wind," there were just some things the South lacked during the Civil War era that ... be Confederate states. It's not that the Southern economy ...

During the transatlantic slave trade, Charleston, South Carolina was one of the largest slave ports in the United States. But at the height of the Civil War, Charleston’s waterfront was the ...

The stark internal divide between the country’s wealthier northern region, which was majority Arab and Muslim, and its less-developed southern ... states in 2011. The second Sudanese civil war ...

“Now, for many, it’s civil war,” he said ... of this violence occurs in fairly diverse states—Georgia, Nevada, Arizona—as it did during Reconstruction in places where whites felt ...

"Cities or states that can pretend that the federal rules don't apply to them are just violating the Constitution and violating our freedom… We had a Civil War over this," he said. "And ...