May 29, 2020 — The most powerful people and institutions in the South spread paranoia and fear to protect slavery. Their beliefs led the country to war—and ...Read more

Aug 7, 2025 — 1860s and 1870s: The Ku Klux Klan and other white terrorist organizations conspired to use violence to deprive freedmen of their rights, ...Read more

In modernity, there are plenty of conspiracy theorist saying that some shadowy cabal on either side of the aisle is orchestrating things and ...Read more

The Lost Cause of the Confederacy, also known as the Lost Cause Myth or simply as the Lost Cause, is an American pseudohistorical and historical negationist ...Read more

Lincoln charged that one Confederate agent, C. C. Clay, had convinced the Democrats to orchestrate an armistice. This intriguing book reveals letters from Clay ...Read more

In August 1864, during the American Civil War, four men were executed in Brooks County, Georgia, for conspiring to plot a slave insurrection.Read more

How did each side protect its communications? What conspiracies were formed during the war? What kinds of sabotage took place? Uncover the covert Civil War.Read more

A writer named John Smith Dye charged that for over 30 years, the South's largest slaveowners and their political allies had engaged in a ruthless conspiracy ...Read more

Aug 14, 2025 — John Wilkes Booth wanted the Confederacy to win the American Civil War. He believed in the righteousness of slavery and of white supremacy ...Read more

The Confederate constitution made slavery and free trade its chief corner stones. This was not an attempt to mix oil and water. Free trade was not adopted ...Read more

Jul 25, 2024 — Lincoln also received blame after Gen. Ambrose Burnside held a military trial and banished anti-war Copperhead leader Clement L. Vallandigham.Read more

For more than a century now, they have been especially diligent in devising conspiracy theories to explain Lincoln's assassination. Unchecked and ignored by ...Read more

Fewer Americans yet know the fascinating story of the trial of eight conspirators before a specially appointed military commission in Washington. APRIL 14, 1865.Read more

by M Lause · 2016 — In the imaginings of Union of- ficials, Confederate agents or secessionist sympathizers operated through secret societies such as the Sons of Liberty, the Or

May 29, 2020 — But they were unfounded: conspiracy theories, born of white supremacy and the desire to justify and maintain slavery.Read more

A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the moral issue of slavery. In fact, it was the economics of slavery and political control of that ...Read more

by JP Morden · 2022 — Conspiracy theories provide a useful lens to examine the secession crisis because they allow us to consider how the lies and exaggerations embedded in them

The Dark Intrigue tells for the first time the incredible story of how leaders of an American political party, during the Civil War, conferred cordially with ...Read more

A plan by Confederate terrorists to carry the war to the cities of the North by arson and other means; and uncovered acts of trading with the enemy.Read more