Using data for a variety of occupations, I document that the Civil War occasioned a dramatic divergence in the regional structure of wages -- in particular, wages in the South Atlantic and South ...

The North wanted to block the spread of slavery. They were also concerned that an extra slave state would give the South a political advantage. The South thought new states should be free to allow ...

America for the ... Many in the North think that distributing land will be a punishment. "These slaveowners, these rebels, have led the South into the Civil War. They're responsible for this ...

The seceded states created the Confederate States of America ... the South, most slaves did not hear of the proclamation for months. But the purpose of the Civil War had now changed. The North ...

a 2016–2017 graphic novel trilogy North & South (computer game), a 1989 strategy title focusing on the American Civil War for multiple formats The Bluecoats: North vs South, a 2012 remake of the game; ...

Andrew Marr describes how the American Civil War and Abraham Lincoln ... to illustrate the conflicting points of view of the North and the South. The pair can then write a balanced obituary ...

In the small hours of April 12th, 1861, Confederate guns opened fire on Fort Sumter, at the mouth of Charleston harbour, in South Carolina. The Federal garrison of the fort surrendered late the next ...

When people say stuff like civil war and World War III, what they mean is volatility and instability. They are saying, 'I feel unsafe.'" Which isn't surprising given recent events in America and ...

This painting was used on the Fleetwood Civil War Collectors ... loss of over 600,000 American lives. Secretary of State William H. Seward, serving under President Abraham Lincoln, referred to the war ...

Last week, Kim Yong-hyun, South Korea’s defense minister ... for the Assad regime during Syria’s civil war in 2016. “It has been a pattern: When North Korea has sold weapons to countries ...

The American Civil War was a struggle over - whatever the protagonists of southern lost-cause theories may tell you - essentially one thing: slavery. But the defeat of the South did not end racial ...

It is 250 years since America's Mason-Dixon Line was completed. Hailed as a groundbreaking technical achievement, it came to symbolise the border between the Civil War North and South, separating ...