California is a long way from Washington, D.C., but a growing number of the state's residents seem to think it's not far ...

Secession A Southern Convention Amendment to the Constitution. Share full article. Nov. 19, 1860. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from November 19 ...

The truth is, secession has been carried in most of the Southern States merely because they were taken by surprise. ... and thus these States were committed to the secession movement.

The American Civil War was a national trauma precipitated by the secession of 11 Southern states over slavery. It is, therefore, ...

The American Civil War was a national trauma precipitated by the secession of 11 Southern states over slavery. It is, therefore, ...

An advisory ballot proposal approved in San Bernardino County -- home to 2.2 million people -- directs local officials to study the possibility of secession.

The longest standing, currently active secession movement is the State of Jefferson. Active in one form or another since 1941, it seeks to break off several rural, conservative counties in northern ...

In this first episode of Kings and Generals’ animated series on the American Civil War, we explore the core causes of the conflict - including slavery, westward expansion, economic tensions, and ...

Ten other Southern states and parts of two others followed. The federal government wouldn’t let them leave, and a four-year war with upward of 700,000 fatalities followed.

If Texas seceded from the United States, residents might be in for a brutal pushback when it comes to Medicare benefits, experts told Newsweek.. While Texas is amid a border crisis, with Governor ...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, wants a “national divorce.” In her view, another Civil War is inevitable unless red and blue states form separate countries. She has plenty of ...

El Dorado’s eastern half includes southern portions of Lake Tahoe as well as the city of South Lake Tahoe, and the county shares its eastern border with the California-Nevada state line.