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This act of violence is a very important historical event in that it caused many to definitively choose a side in sectional disputes, and write and speak their attitudes.

Vinnie Ream's talent was obvious to anyone who spent time in her studio. It's how she played powerful men to showcase that talent that makes for interesting conversation.

The outburst of Joe Wilson was off-color to some Democrats in Congress. However, Representative Wilson's comment pales in comparison to two historical senators outbursts

The site is peaceful now, but 153 years ago it was the scene of the first battle in the conflict that would become the Civil War.

Only a Constitutional Amendment would guarantee an end to slavery in every state for all time despite earlier legislative acts and presidential proclamations.

A look at the life of suffragette Isabella Beecher Hooker, daughter of Lyman Beecher and his second wife Harriet Porter Beecher.

The death of Lincoln elevated Andrew Johnson to the presidency, allowing him to follow a lenient policy of restoration toward the South in defiance of the radicals.

The media has said that the partisan bickering in the United States has reached new levels of vitriol, but the war has been raging since the nation was founded.

President Lincoln's most famous speech of 10 poetic sentences was at first received along partisan lines, but it is now regarded as one of the best in American history.