Trace the real causes of the American Civil War in this first part of a detailed historical series, covering the key events and tensions from 1819 to 1861. Uncover how decades of political conflict, ...

On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces attacked the Union-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Bay, kicking off the start of the Civil War. After 34 hours of bombardment, the fort ...

For years, Syria’s civil war has been a largely frozen conflict, the country effectively carved up into areas controlled by the Damascus government of President Bashar Assad, various opposition ...

This is how an American civil war begins. Extremists across the US are preparing for what they call the ‘boogaloo’ – a mass insurrection to overthrow the US government.

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 ...

April 12, 1861: Fort Sumter bombarded, Civil War begins Then on July 21, 1861, green, undertrained, inexperienced Union troops marched out from Washington D.C. ...

Marche says that when the first civil war happened in the 1860s, very few people in America saw it coming – even when the first battle began, at Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina.

Patrick Saylor, with the American Civil War Museum, talks about the new 29,000-square-foot building that will enclose existing walls, background, that date to pre-Civil War at Historic Tredegar in ...

Mohammed Othman, a Palestinian survivor of the April 13, 1975 attack on a bus carrying Palestinians that sparked Lebanon's civil war, prays over the graves of those killed that day, at the ...