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 ...

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.

While most people associate secession with Civil War history ... the first secession crisis wasn’t in the South, as you might think, but in the North. The United States wasn’t even 40 years ...