The state Supreme Court has approved a controversial plan for residents in a Baton Rouge community to create a new city — a ...

Our area of East Baton Rouge Parrish has the fastest growing minority population in the Parrish. So to me, it's a narrative ...

This is the worst resolution that’s been brought to the full board in my 26 years on the county board. I’m opposed to this ...

Former President Donald Trump pulled in millions at a fundraiser in a swanky neighborhood of Atlanta that has for years railed against the Democrat-led city's spiraling crime rate and lack of ...

The South's motivation and vision seemed to arise from its vision that each individual State's rights trumped Lincoln's federal vision of federal unity. That "State Rights" vision seems to have arisen ...

The Madison County Board voted 15-7 on Wednesday to send a symbolic question to voters in November about forming a new state separate from the Chicago area. The secession vote, which carries no true ...

Look no further than periodic news headlines about outlying geographic coalitions seeking to secede from their nearest major ...

Author Erik Larson visits Fort Sumter in Charleston, S.C., where he discusses "the single most consequential day in American ...

Alex Garland's dystopian action movie Civil War hits cinemas this Friday, and speculation is already rife about what has divided the nation—and which states are on either side of the rift. In an ...

Following the Confederacy’s 1861 attack on Fort Sumter, often viewed as the event that sparked the Civil War, then-President ...