War and Foreign Policy

The Lincoln administration does everything it can to ensure that Kentucky is not taken over by secessionists.

Taken all together, defense spending in Fiscal Year 2019 totals more than the state budget of Texas seven times over.

When Virginia decided to join the South, many Unionists in the western portion of the state were opposed to the move.

No organization has more money at its disposal than the US government, which attracts thieves and con men at least in full proportion to its control of wealth.

As the fear of spies and traitors spread through the North, political arrests became commonplace, even in states as far north as Maine.

Included in John C. Frémont’s declaration of Martial Law is the first emancipation proclamation of the war.

Confederate and Union forces fight on Bloody Hill, and the Battle of Wilson’s Creek comes to an end. 

The abandonment of liberal reason to warlike frenzy was felt deeply by the poets of the First World War.

Chris Calton recounts one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War.

Union forces pursue the Missouri secessionists to the southwest corner of the state.