Post and Courier

A second civil war looming? South Carolina poll shows nearly half the state thinks so.

In South Carolina, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired, a new poll reveals that almost half of its residents believe a second civil war could be on the horizon — a stark indicator of the ...
Yahoo

When Confederate-glorifying monuments went up in the South, voting in Black areas went down

Demonstrators hold Confederate flags near the monument for Confederacy President Jefferson Davis on June 25, 2015, in Richmond, Va., after it was spray-painted with the phrase 'Black Lives Matter.' AP ...
Heartland

An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South (Guest: Robert K.D. Colby

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Robert K.D. Colby, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mississippi, to discuss his new book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South ...
Smithsonian Magazine

After Confederate Forces Captured Their Children, These Black Mothers Fought to Reunite Their Families

Robert Colby - Author, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South A Harper's Weekly illustration of Confederate soldiers driving Black Americans south in 1862 Library of Congress In the ...
Cfr.org

Instability in South Sudan

In 1956, Britain and Egypt relinquished their colonial control over Sudan, forming the newly independent Republic of Sudan. After independence, internal divisions between the wealthier north and ...