Lincoln and Civil War scholars debated why the Civil War didn't end in 1861, the year that it began. They discussed why the numerous advantages of the Union did not bring the war to a swift ...

Continue the deep dive into the American Civil War with Part 2, focusing on the crucial battles of 1861 that set the tone for ...

Book Review: '1861: The Civil War Awakening' offers valuable perspective on war's beginnings. Lee Scott. Understanding that "history is decided not just on battlefields and in cabinet meetings, ...

On this day in 1861, Congress enacted a resolution declaring that the Civil War was being fought to preserve the Union, not to abolish the South's "peculiar institution" of slavery.

The Lost Peace' by Jay Winik. T he most serious attempt to evade America's Civil War was probably doomed to fail, said Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker. But that effort at rec ...

1861: The Civil War Awakening Adam Goodheart Knopf, 460 pp., $28.95 This Great Struggle Steven E. Woodworth Rowman and Littlefield, 432 pp., $29.95 Reviewed by Richard Aregood This year is the ...

The “Races at Philippi” and Virginia is split in two and more from what happened in the Civil War in June 1861. David Zax. June 2011. Get our newsletter! Get our newsletter!

Most folks will tell you the Civil War began April 12, 1861, with the first shots fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. Many historians, however, say the war actually began 164 years ago this ...

More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book with “April 1865: The Month That Saved America." His latest book covers the period of ...

In Search of Walt Whitman. Part Two: The Civil War and Beyond (1861-1892) Special | 1h 29m 20s Video has Closed Captions | CC. The poet moves to Washington to care for sick and injured Civil War ...

Historian Jay Winik writes about the leadup to the outbreak of the Civil War in “1861: The Lost Peace.” The Associated Press' Andrew DeMillo writes that the political intrigue in Winik's book ...

Historian Jay Winik writes about the leadup to the outbreak of the Civil War in “1861: The Lost Peace.” The Associated Press' Andrew DeMillo writes that the political intrigue in Winik's book ...