In the South, most slaves did not hear of the proclamation for months. But the purpose of the Civil War had now changed. The North was not only fighting to preserve the Union, it was fighting to ...

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 ...

We have an income tax as opposed to a tariff in part to deal with the mind of the South in 1913—yet the income tax revenue enabled revenue-destructive tariffs.