As President Donald Trump floats grand ideas like reacquiring the Panama Canal and taking over Greenland, some rural residents of Illinois and Oregon are promoting geopolitical change of their own: Th ...

The Confederacy had been victorious at Fort Sumter in April and now the next battle - at Bull Run was taking place. The men, women and children who made up the wealthy elite of Washington came out in ...

After Virginia seceded from the U.S. in 1861, union loyalists formed the new ... president and head curator of the Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library.

Grab a map from a docent and allott several hours ... would find in the art museums of much larger cities. In 1861, following Virginia's secession from the Union, Richmond became the capital ...