What really led to the American Civil War? This episode investigates the deeper causes behind Southern secession—slavery, economic conflict, states’ rights, and political breakdown. Discover ...

Explore the American Civil War's history, causes like slavery and states' rights, key events including Gettysburg and Antietam, and the war's lasting impact on the United States ...

Paul Quigley examined the various reasons for the outbreak of the Civil War and showed artifacts from the period that represent some of the causes. Mr. Quigley is the editor of the book, [The ...

Slavery was the Civil War's cause despite revisionists saying otherwise. Historian Adam Goodheart, who has a new book on the critical year of "1861" said he thinks part of the reason for that ...

The clearest picture of what caused the Civil War, I have argued, emerges in the words of some 50 men who served their slave states as secession commissioners in late 1860 and early 1861.

An American Civil War happening today is possible, and its cause would probably be similar to what caused the one in the 1860s, says Eli Merritt, a political historian at Vanderbilt University and ...

An American Civil War will mean that we don’t merely disagree with one another or dislike each other. It will mean we kill each other. None of us, and I mean none of us, has an inkling about how ...

A century and a half later, the American Civil War remains a key part of the history of the USA. “While the Revolution of 1776-1783 created the United States, the Civil War of 1861-1865 ...

In this first episode of Kings and Generals’ animated series on the American Civil War, we explore the core causes of the conflict - including slavery, westward expansion, economic tensions, and ...