North Conway, N.H. — Nikki Haley on Thursday scrambled to quell a firestorm that rocked her ascendant presidential campaign, acknowledging the Civil War was "about slavery" after critics in both ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton is facing a backlash over comments he made ...

Slavery caused the Civil War. More exactly, the economics of slavery caused the Civil War. Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley made news last month when she was asked at a New Hampshire town ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley failed to use the word “slavery” when discussing the cause of the Civil War and the ...

President Donald Trump’s long-running fixation on rewriting how the country remembers its past surfaced again last week when ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Haley was asked what caused the Civil War by a voter on Wednesday ...

Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley’s answer about the cause of the Civil War during an event in New Hampshire has sparked blowback just as she’s looking to pull off an upset in the Granite State ...

A living historian brings the past to life for contemporary Americans by portraying historical figures at public events such as our long-defunct Heritage Days festival. Such a person visited my ...

Letter writer Sheila Bailey is probably accurate that most Southerners fought for their homes and not slavery during the Civil War (“For poorer Southerners, war wasn’t about slavery,” Jan. 8). However ...

GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley says now that she should have mentioned slavery when she was asked about the cause of the Civil War last week. At a CNN town hall in Iowa Thursday, days before ...

GOP presidential primary candidate Nikki Haley said Wednesday she had assumed it was a “given” that the Civil War was about slavery when giving her controversial answer on the topic last week. “What I ...

Shortly after Robert Smalls met with President Abraham Lincoln, War Secretary Edwin Stanton allowed 5,000 former slaves to fight for the Union Army during the Civil War. (Wikimedia Commons) As ...