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How the American Civil War Really Began (Part 1: 1819–1861)

Trace the real causes of the American Civil War in this first part of a detailed historical series, covering the key events and tensions from 1819 to 1861. Uncover how decades of political conflict, ...
Yahoo

History program to address Civil War cause, ‘Yellow Rose of Texas’

JAMESTOWN — Local historian James Lutzweiler will present this month’s First Thursday History Program at the Jamestown Public Library at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. Lutzweiler will discuss two seemingly ...
The American Prospect

The Real Democratic Civil War

No American ever did more to create an abundant economy that benefited the working class, or more to regulate the economy in ways that constrained capital and benefited the working class, than ...
The New Yorker

Was the Civil War Inevitable?

Out of guilt or amnesia, we tend to treat wars, in retrospect, as natural disasters: terrible but somehow inevitable, beyond anyone’s control. Shaking your fist at the fools who started the First ...