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

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

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

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

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

The Southern Confederate soldiers are shown forced under the feet of the horses, while the horsemen hold their swords high.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

The city is more than two thousand meters above sea level, near the southern Rocky Mountains in northern New Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

This victory gave Japan control over the economy of the southern part of what was then called Manchuria, in northeastern China.

VOA: special.2011.03.03

Congress passed several other bills giving the federal government power to protect the rights of blacks in the southern states.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

And it was three days after the Confederate Army of the southern states attacked federal forces at Fort Sumter, South Carolina.

VOA: special.2011.04.15

For years,rich slave owners had talked of taking the southern states out of the Union to save their way of life.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

He had heard Lincoln say that he wanted to make it easy for the southern states to return to the Union.

VOA: special.2010.01.14