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States of the Confederate States of America
- Indian Territory in the American Civil WarIndian Territory in the American Civil War was shaped not by distant generals but by the people who already lived there.
- Confederate government of MissouriThe Confederate government of Missouri never actually governed Missouri. It existed as a government in exile, a political body that claimed to speak for a…
- AlabamaAlabama sits at a crossroads of American history that few states can match. Its oldest city, Mobile, was founded by French colonists in 1702 as the capital…
- MississippiMississippi sits at the southern edge of the American interior, a state whose name comes from an Ojibwe word meaning "great river." That river defines its…
- ArkansasArkansas is a landlocked state whose very name carries a centuries-old argument. In 1881, the state legislature had to pass a formal resolution to settle a…
- TexasTexas stretches across 268,596 square miles of the southern United States, a territory so vast that it would rank as the 39th-largest country on earth if it…
- TennesseeTennessee sits at the crossroads of three distinct American worlds. From the fog-wrapped peaks of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the east, across the…
- LouisianaLouisiana sits at one of the most consequential crossroads in North America, where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico.
- North CarolinaNorth Carolina sits at a crossroads that has shaped American history at almost every turn. On the 12th of April 1776, the colony's Provincial Congress issued…
- South CarolinaSouth Carolina sits at a crossing point that has shaped centuries of American history. On the 12th of April, 1861, Confederate batteries opened fire on Union…
- Georgia (U.S. state)Georgia, the American state that calls itself the Peach State, holds a peculiar distinction: it is simultaneously the 24th-largest state by area and the…
- FloridaFlorida juts into the Atlantic world like no other piece of the United States. It is the only state that shares a border with both the Gulf of Mexico and the…
- VirginiaVirginia is a state with a claim that no other American state can match: its legislature, the General Assembly, first convened in July 1619, making it the…