In the American Civil War, the North hoped for a quick victory by capturing the southern capital at Richmond,Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

Twenty-nine-year-old photographer Paul Rockower shows his own Family of Man pictures in the new exhibit at the University of Southern California.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

Robert Frank took the picture a few days after he was arrested and detained in the southern state of Arkansas.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

Sports fans know the University of Southern California for its athletics, but students say they come for the strong academic programs.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

He had been on the first exploratory trip to the mountain that had mapped the way up from the southern side.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

He also believed pro-slavery extremists would use Lincoln's election as an excuse to take Southern states out of the union.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

President Abraham Lincoln asked the states of the Union for seventy-five thousand soldiers to help end the southern rebellion.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

The southern part of the river forms the border between Jordan and Israel and includes part of the Palestinian territories.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

Now,the University of Southern California researchers say their work may make it possible for doctors to heal cleft palate before birth.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

It is the story of Joseph Sutpen, who wants to start a famous Southern family after America's Civil War.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

President Abraham Lincoln led the Union of northern states in four years of civil war against the southern Confederacy.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

In nineteen twenty-five, a young science teacher in the southern state of Tennessee challenged the state's new teaching law.

VOA: special.2011.01.13

No southern governor, except William Gist of South Carolina, seemed willing to lead the South out of the Union.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

In September, NASA scientists had announced the discovery of water molecules mainly in the moon's extreme northern and southern areas.

VOA: special.2009.12.30