Today’s episode will focus on one of the biggest – and most important – turning points in world history; the Battle of ...

Throughout the war, fighting was largely concentrated in areas around the border between Southern slave states and Northern free states. Still, Civil War battles spread across a total of 23 states ...

Between 1861 and 1865, the Union, or northern states, and the Confederacy, or southern states, fought each other in the American Civil War. A major dispute over slavery was the primary cause of ...

To determine the states with the most Civil War deaths, 24/7 Tempo compiled death counts from the American Battlefield Trust and historical tabulations by William F. Fox and Frederick H. Dyer ...

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. ... His victory, without a single Southern electoral vote, was a clear signal to the Southern states that they had lost all influence.

Before he even took office, seven Southern states seceded from the United States. Southern Democrats led the charge to form the Confederacy. Lincoln took office in March 1861.

GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley's answer on 'what caused the civil war' led us to speak with an expert about slavery's role in the conflict.

While controversy swirls around Civil War legacies and monuments in other states, Southern Nevada’s brief annexation by the South helped put the present “Battle-Born” state on the map.