On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged southern states. The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many ...

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The deadliest conflict in American history, the Civil War, also had some of its worst ... the Confederate states fared much worse than the Union, with a mortality rate more than twice as high.

The year 1862 saw the birth of modern warfare and the transformation of Lincoln's war to preserve the Union into a war to emancipate the slaves. Episode Two begins with the political infighting ...

There are over 400 documented cases of women disguising themselves as men to fight for both the Union and the Confederacy. One of the most famous female soldiers of the American Civil War was ...

In addition to the humanitarian catastrophe, the Syria civil war continues to take a serious toll on the country’s economy. The Syrian people are faced with homelessness, as at least 22 percent ...

In the most serious challenge to President Bashar al-Assad’s power in nearly a decade, rebel groups have seized Aleppo. Russia has responded with airstrikes to support the Assad regime.

Syrian Dictator Bashar al-Assad has fled his country as rebels marched into the capital city Damascus late Saturday. The brutal leader’s nearly quarter century rule came to a stunning end as ...

The remarkable story of Irish woman Mary Sophia Hill, a Civil ... war between Confederate and Union controlled areas, which included New Orleans following its fall to Union forces in April 1862.

Tattered and worn, about 1,000 American flags were brought to the Virginia War Memorial Foundation in ... also called the union. After this, while one cadet held the stars, the other two cut ...