We noticed an artillery projectile found lodged in the brick wall of Civil War FORT SUMTER during a historic tour with the National Park Service. Go along with us as we visit the location where the ...

T he civilizational inflection point in our cold civil war happened sometime between Donald Trump's second inaugural address ...

and on April 12 they attacked Fort Sumter, a federal stronghold in Charleston, South Carolina. Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack ...

Unionists responded with their own verses. Augustine Duganne, a New York legislator, soldier and poet, asked in an 1863 poem: ...

You probably remember Fort Sumter as the place where the first shot of the Civil War was fired back in 1861. Today, you can see for yourself where all the action happened by taking a ferry to the ...

At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too slow to record ... William Waud’s sketches predate the attack on Fort Sumter and offer a glimpse into the last days of the prewar South.

War broke out in April 1861 with the attempt by the Federal government to resupply South Carolina’s Fort Sumter. Despite the optimism of partisans ... Lincoln had to grapple with the evolving meaning ...

On April 12, 1861, barely a month after Lincoln took office, Confederate forces fired on Union troops at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, and the Civil War began. Lincoln acted swiftly, wielding more ...

If that Freudian slip was our cold civil war's Fort Sumter, then Obama's presidency that followed was the extended opening campaign. Indeed, Obama did "fundamentally transform" America ...