Examines the build-up to the Civil War: slavery, the Missouri Compromise, abolitionism, and key events like the Dred Scott decision and the election of Lincoln led to secession.

On June 14, 1775, the Continental Congress voted to replace the colonies' part-time militias with a full-time army – and ...

In May, the Supreme Court issued a decision allowing racial discrimination in the drawing of voting maps, dismissing the ... In June, in Trump v. United States, justices ruled that former ...