Most folks will tell you the Civil War began April 12, 1861, with the first shots fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. Many historians, however, say the war actually began 164 years ago this ...

On the afternoon of July 13, a family member called me. “They just shot Trump. This is how civil wars start.” The family member is an ardent Trump supporter, and he believes, as many others in the ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Booming cannons, plaintive period music and hushed crowds ushered in the 150th anniversary of America's bloodiest war Tuesday, a commemoration that continues to underscore a racial ...

DECATUR - On a grassy knoll in Fairview Park, near the tennis courts, a Civil War monument guarded by cannons commemorates the service of soldiers from Macon County. The names of 2,085 men who fought ...

As a war expert on a CIA panel, UC San Diego political scientist Barbara Walter helped forecast civil wars in other countries. Along the way, she discovered some of those predictors apply to the ...