Black men and women were forced to build fortifications ... But the purpose of the Civil War had now changed. The North was not only fighting to preserve the Union, it was fighting to end slavery.

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to the outbreak of the bloodiest conflict in the history of North America? A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the ...

On November 3, 2023, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) expressed concerns about the dire situation of women and ... into a brutal civil war resulting ...

The disputes escalated into a civil war in ... in 1643 to ban women from wearing men’s clothes and fighting for the Royalist army. Women did not just fight in the War. Elizabeth Alkin was ...