As 21st century activists seek to topple monuments to the 19th century ... property of Southern white nationalists. A group that wants California to secede from the United States is based mainly ...

The beautifully detailed, early 19th-century map of the United States pictured above would be snapped up quickly by a collector if it were to hit the market today. But that’s not because it was ...

When, how and by whose pens and voices over the course of the 19th century did the United States attain its dominant ... who may still see the first Southern-born president since the Civil War ...

An 1851 map of the United States shows Texas and ... pushed the four-new-states clause as a Southern-friendly alternative. “Van Zandt…became very intimate with the Senators and Representatives ...