The Civil War helped define America and names like Gettysburg, Antietam, Lincoln, Robert E Lee, and Ulysses S Grant are ...

"While in the short term--militarily--the North won the Civil War, in the long term--ideologically--victory went to the South. The continual expansion of the Western frontier allowed a Southern ...

… [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 ...

UNITED NATIONS — South Sudan is teetering on the edge of renewed civil war, the top U.N. official in the world’s youngest nation warned on Monday, lamenting the government’s sudden postponement of the ...