In 1849, Samuel M. Janney, a Virginia Quaker, published an article rebuking public remarks by William A. Smith, the president

John C. Breckinridge holds the distinction of having served both as U.S. vice-president – the youngest ever to hold the

This week's video focuses on the incredible strides the Confederacy made toward industrialization during the Civil War, and

Politicians routinely hail every election as "the most important election of my lifetime," but if you were alive

How did abolitionists come to be more concentrated in New England than in other parts of the North, and why

Doctor's orders sent Jefferson Davis north in 1858 to recuperate from one of the many protracted illnesses he

his week's video contrasts the reactions by two newspapers, – one Southern, one Northern – to Abraham Lincoln's

In November 1860, just after Abraham Lincoln's election, the abolitionist editor and publisher Horace Greeley, who earlier that

This week's video features diarist Mary Chesnut's observations on the predatory behavior of many antebellum Southern

Historian Clement Eaton's Freedom of Thought in the Old South includes a chapter on the scattered, ill-fated attempts