The Civil War was a military, cultural, political, and economic milestone in American history. For four years the nation was in a bloody divide that extended from the East Coast to the pioneer West ...

At Antietam and Gettysburg, the Union successfully repelled Confederate invasions of the North. Although the Union had been ...

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to ... territorial expansion. The South wished to take slavery into the western territories, while the North was committed to keeping ...

After independence, internal divisions between the wealthier north and less-developed south triggered decades of violent conflict, including two civil wars. The second Sudanese civil war ...