History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

During the three months between his election and the inauguration, much was to happen and tensions continued to build between the North and South. The South did not want Lincoln to be the President.

South Carolina elites were opposed to federal ... It will eventually see that the new president is not its sickness, nor are secession and nullification its cures. Instead, California is becoming ...

America had the largest per capita newspaper circulation in the world at the time of the South's secession, and the war made the nation even hungrier for news. Correspondents headed for the ...

In total, 33 counties in more southern, rural parts of Illinois have expressed interest in secession due to dissatisfaction with the liberal state governments and allocation of resources between ...

On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that secession by Southern Sudan is "inevitable." Speaking at the Council of Foreign Relations in Washington, she admitted "this is going ...