South Carolina gala marks 150 years after secession, sparks debate on slavery. Dec. 20, 2010— -- It's been 150 years since South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union ahead of ...

The first assault against national unity came not from South Carolina's declaration of secession in 1861, but many years earlier, when frontier farmers rebelled against a federal tax on whiskey, a ...

GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley shouldn’t take too much heat for refusing to call out slavery, the commentary in Friday's Post and Courier on the origins of the Civil War suggests, arguing that ...

… [S]outhern Indians too were divided in their feelings toward the Confederacy…. By the winter of 1861–62, a full-blown civil war was under way among the Indians, adding a further dimension to ...

Oregon’s conservative eastern counties want to break away from the rest of their deep-blue state and become part of the solidly red state of Idaho. They want President Donald Trump to help make it ...