More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to the outbreak of the bloodiest conflict in the history of North America? A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the ...

Letter writer Sheila Bailey is probably accurate that most Southerners fought for their homes and not slavery during the Civil War (“For poorer Southerners, war wasn’t about slavery,” Jan. 8). However ...

Abraham Lincoln pledged in his First Inaugural Address to keep the union together but to allow slavery in the States that had it already Nikki Haley recently downplayed the role of slavery in the ...

As the centennial commemoration of the American Civil War began 50 years ago, the members of Lancaster's first Civil War Round Table asked an essential question: "What Really Caused the Civil War?" ...

"What was the cause of the United States Civil War?" A voter posed the question to Republican presidential primary candidate and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley at a town hall in Berlin, New ...

The American Civil War was fought between 1861 and 1865, but its true cause remains the subject of debate. Beyond battles and politics, the central issue was slavery and its expansion into new ...

The issue of slavery divided the United States long before the election of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. After the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed in 1854, newly established states could use popular ...

It is not well known that four Deep South states, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi appointed commissioners (Louisiana only sent a commissioner to Texas) to visit the slave states, ...

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley declined to mention slavery when asked by a voter on Wednesday evening what caused the Civil War, arguing instead that it came down to “the role of ...

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is facing bipartisan criticism after she failed to mention slavery as the cause of the Civil War during a town hall in New Hampshire. Photo: Sophie Park ...

BERLIN, N.H. — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley declined Wednesday to say slavery was a cause of the Civil War, arguing instead that it came down to “the role of government.” At a New ...