More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to the outbreak of the ... that was central to the conflict. A key issue was states' rights. The Southern states wanted to assert their ...
During the Civil War, the young United States dealt with an unprecedented and overwhelming number of dead. The Ric Burns film is based on the book "This Republic of Suffering" by Harvard President ...
After independence, internal divisions between the wealthier north and less-developed south triggered decades of violent conflict, including two civil ... were killed during the war, with an ...