Civil wars need a geographical base for the opposing sides to operate from, as happened in our Civil War, North against South. The MAGA base is dispersed across the country, but principally in ...

Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...

Forgotten Civil War Memorial found in Alton apartment building ...

Every couple of months, another abortion abolitionist with a cult following on social media decides it’s time to burn women at the stake.

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

When Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a federal holiday in 1863, abolitionists hailed pumpkins as a symbol of virtue and the opposite of mmoral Southern farming.

Historians, veterans, and Rockford residents gathered at Veterans Memorial Hall to learn about the history of local abolitionists and the challenges faced by abolitionists during the Civil War.

A new collection of primary source documents, "The 1863 Stibbs Family Civil War Era Letters," is the third set of letters ...

Foner refers to the Civil War, as had abolitionists at the time, as the “Second American Revolution.” For Black people, one might say it was the first.

The Civil War remains one of the most important chapters in American history. But the conflict itself was more complex than North vs. South.

John Brown’s Day of Reckoning The abolitionist’s bloody raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry 150 years ago set the stage for the Civil War ...