Surprisingly, many white historians of the period — such as Charles and Mary Beard, Louis Hacker, and Arthur Cole — were skeptical that slavery played an important role in causing the Civil War.

Was the Civil War actually about slavery? A leading historian challenges the new orthodoxy about how slavery ended in America ...

Slavery was the root cause of the Civil War, but Nikki Haley is right that from March 4, 1861 to January 1, 1863, the Civil War was about keeping the Union together.

Here are ten shocking facts about slavery and American descendants of chattel slavery who survived the unthinkable in the ...

Slavery was the central reason for Southern secession and war in 1861. Yet in 2024, two candidates for president, Nikki Haley, who failed to mention slavery as the war’s cause, and Donald Trump ...

A century and a half after the opening shots of the Civil War, James Illingworth dispels the myths about the Southern slaveocracy and the war that liberated slaves. IN MARCH 1861, Alexander ...

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 ...

Drawing from narratives of former slaves collected as part of the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), How the Slaves Saw the Civil War presents first-hand testimony in ...

Historians discussed the experiences of both enslaved and free blacks during the Civil War. After the presentations, which included illustrations, the panelists responded to questions submitted by ...

In fact, slavery, that awful stain imprinted on the American founding, would have persisted longer, perhaps much longer, if the Civil War had not happened.

Runaway Slaves and the Refugee Crisis in Civil War America Striking down children and adults, women and men, and blacks and whites, smallpox posed a grave threat in Civil War Virginia.