Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith (R) said the compromise ultimately helped end slavery, while historians generally agree it ...

Historians describe the debate over extending civil rights to former slaves that divided the country after the Civil War. The same issues would re-emerge decades later, in the civil rights ...

Ambrose Burnside's roller-coaster military career included early Civil War successes ... He grew up in Indiana and attended West Point. By the time he'd graduated in 1847, Burnside had adopted ...