How could Americans be such nice and decent people and support someone so debasing, so deranged, so hate-filled? It was the ...

On April 18, 1861, the Virginia Secession Convention ... preparation of coastal defenses along the South Atlantic seaboard before being called to Richmond to serve as military advisor to President ...

About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of ... many other "places" in this part of Virginia, which are located conspicuously ...

The U.S. map leaves us with tons of questions. Some of the borders are so completely WEIRD you have to wonder what the mapmakers were thinking, or drinking, when they came up with this stuff. See if ...

Cambridge, UK  As the voting results started coming in here from Virginia at 4 am (GMT, which is five hours later than ...

By June, Virginia, Arkansas ... only a few months before Louisiana’s secession, the Southern Democrat (John C. Breckinridge) received 22681 votes in Louisiana. Southern Democrats in Louisiana ...

The moderate Richmond, Virginia, Whig argued that Lincoln’s ... they drove seven Southern states to secede from the Union even before the new president took office. Their blind fear of the ...

If the five states with the largest Donald Trump majorities (Wyoming, West Virginia ... vote on secession would be serious, it would have consequences, you would think more seriously before ...

He co-founded the Democrat-Republican Party with James Madison in the early 1790s and became governor of Virginia before serving ... in spite of Tennessee's secession from the rest of the country ...

"The opening sentence alone…would not be out of place among the declarations of secession issued nearly 165 years ago." ...