Although tensions escalated with Bleeding Kansas (1854–1861) and John Brown's raid (1859), the war officially started with the Confederate secession, the attack on Fort Sumter (April 1861), and ...

In April 1861, just three days after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to fill the ranks of the Union Army and end the rebellion in the ...

Since then, our beautiful country has fought two other wars. We call them the First and Second World War. We have endured ...

Faculty experts at Harvard Kennedy School see unprecedented challenge to the rule of law and to constitutional norms and ...

Both parties should treat voters based on the content of their character, not the color of their skin, writes.

Harper’s Weekly, June 3, 1865 They were known as the Special Artists of the Civil War, and their mission ... cue the wood engraver back home. From Fort Sumter to Appomattox—at Bull Run ...

First, the Civil War began with Brigadier General P.G.T. Beauregard's attack on ... first answer, Fort Knox; and second question, no answer. -Both are incorrect. It was Fort Sumter, and it was ...

BRIAN LOCKHART On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces opened fire on the Union-held Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. Those were the first shots fired in the American Civil War, and ...