We must become critical consumers of history again. Our present-day society demands it. We as black historians and consumers have a new black power. We finally have a platform to give our studied ...

Let us assume that South Carolina retires upon the election of ... of duty exacted by the National treasury? The results of secession, independently of any armed coercion on the part of the ...

CHARLESTON, Tuesday, May 1, 1860. One of the most annoying things ... She was followed by Louisiana, South Carolina, Mississippi, Texas, Arkansas, Florida, and Georgia. Their protests had ...

On December 20, 1860, South Carolina seceded ... From the beginning, there were factions who vehemently disagreed with secession and remained loyal to the Union. Many poor southern whites became ...

Lincoln won the presidential election in November 1860. But he would not actually ... tensions continued to build between the North and South. The South did not want Lincoln to be the President.

In December 1860, South Carolina seceded from the Union in furor ... see that the new president is not its sickness, nor are secession and nullification its cures. Instead, California is becoming ...

By June, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina ... Louisiana’s secession wasn’t a given in 1860. The biggest city in the South was New Orleans, and she was a port city with strong ties to ...

A Republican presidential candidate endangering democracy, threatening the Constitution and such a menace to America he could foment a civil war?

In 1860 Lincoln ... men in the South who would not tolerate living under a government hostile to their economy founded on humans held as property. They responded by demanding secession and by ...

Settled by the English in 1670, the colony named for King Charles I was split into North and South Carolina in 1710. Largely agricultural, settlers relied heavily on the slave trade to work rice ...

After 43 monkeys escaped a research facility in a small South Carolina town, police on Thursday urged residents to lock their homes and avoid approaching the animals under any circumstances.

"The opening sentence alone…would not be out of place among the declarations of secession issued nearly 165 years ago." As if on cue, two weeks later, Daniel Miller, founder of the Texas ...