The opening episode of Mercy Street season two introduces viewers to an early refugee crisis: the plight of runaway slaves in Civil War America ... families of African American soldiers ...

A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the moral issue of slavery. In fact, it was the economics of slavery and political control of that system that was central to the conflict.

After President Donald Trump signed an executive order to change the meaning of the 14th Amendment to end “birthright ...

Life in the Southern plantations was often terrible. The treatment of enslaved people could be very harsh.

Bubbling under the surface for decades and then raging for four years, the American Civil War was a brutal conflict between the anti-slavery Union in the north and the pro-slavery Confederacy in ...

Winooski had a short time as a community in the 19th century. Its most famous resident was a well-known abolitionist who had ...

Wells acknowledged the evils of slavery, but said he wanted to make the people of Liverpool proud of their city's role in bolstering the South during the American Civil War, "to let Liverpool ...

After his death, Eli Whitney was described as "one of the most distinguished men who our country as produced." ...

Economically, slavery was a dynamic and efficient system ... itself “thrilled by the death of our oppressor." The American Civil War left a bitter legacy. In the south, burned and devastated ...

"By finding these names, we are releasing them to give back these enslaved people some of their dignity," said Sarah Bader-King, executive director of the John Wornall House Museum.

The American Civil War, which began in 1861 ... the conflict evolved to center on the economics of slavery and issues of political control. It stands as the deadliest war ever fought on American ...