Explore the truths behind Civil War and slavery myths that persist in America and understand the real history behind them.

"What was the cause of the United States Civil War?" A voter posed the question to Republican presidential primary candidate and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley at a town hall in Berlin, New ...

“Until the pictures of the slave’s sufferings were drawn up and held up to public gaze, no Northerner had any idea of the cruelty of the system,” abolitionist Angelina Grimké wrote in her famous “ ...

North Conway, N.H. — Nikki Haley on Thursday scrambled to quell a firestorm that rocked her ascendant presidential campaign, acknowledging the Civil War was "about slavery" after critics in both ...

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Thursday addressed the backlash to her Wednesday night comments about what she thought was the cause of the American Civil War, during which she ...

BOSTON - The kerfuffle over GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley's failure to mention slavery in her response to a voter's question about what caused the Civil War is a good example of why ...

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is cleaning up comments she made about the U.S. Civil War after catching heat from both sides of the political aisle. Haley faced a backlash from the ...

Bravo to the writer of “A Civil War history lesson” (Jan. 9, TribLive) for a fascinating, well-researched letter. He must have used a bulldozer to unearth this information. When the Constitution was ...

On Nov. 19, 1863, then-President Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful 272-word speech, later known as the Gettysburg Address, ...

The date selected for this event was between Veterans Day, Nov. 11, and Nov. 19, which is when President Abraham Lincoln gave ...