The decline of the American South's cotton and sugar industries paved the way for plantations in British-controlled Fiji and Australia, where victims of "blackbirding" endured horrific working conditi ...

Confederate monuments burst into public consciousness in 2015 when a shooting at a historically Black church in Charleston, ...

Lincoln's chance came after the Union ... celebrated the news. In the South, most slaves did not hear of the proclamation for months. But the purpose of the Civil War had now changed.

For many years, historians have relied on a rough estimate of war dead from the U.S. Civil War ... men who moved from the North to the South or vice-versa after the war. The study found that ...