When Americans disagreed on the power of individual states to control their respective governments and institutions, they fought a war, between themselves, during 1861 to 1865. Other countries have also fought "civil wars." These stories focus on those people, places and events.
Native Americans Indicator SC 8-1.1
Patriots, Tories/Loyalist, women, enslaved/free Africans, and Native Americans Indicator 8-2.4
General Jackson, a strong Confederate commander, weeps over the death of a child and for his soldiers.
Douglass travels to speak and write against slavery, and becomes friends with other famous abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison and John Brown.
President Lincoln relieves General Hooker of command because of his loss at Chancellorsville.
Civil war is coming to Ireland as violence divides the country. On May 3, 1921, the country is partitioned in two.
When Abraham Lincoln becomes America's 16th President, Southerners viewed the event as a showdown. South Carolina became the first state to leave the ...
Conspiracy charges against Mary Surratt, David Herold, George Atzerodt and Lewis Payne lead to a death sentence for each of the accused..
Many die in Ireland, but those who escape to America face many more hardships.
Drs. Johan Hultin and Jeffrey Taubenberger study preserved tissue samples from WWI soldiers and from an Inuit woman to conclude the flu virus most lik...
Stonewall Jackson falls while carried from the battlefield and later dies from pneumonia.
Former Tsar Nicholas, his wife, his son, his four daughters and four of their assistants are shot in the cellar of their exiled home.
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