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The causes of the Civil War Edited by Kenneth M. Stampp. With revisions

Pt. 1: The "slave power" and the "Black Republicans": "The great slave power conspiracy" -- The record of the slave power -- "Where will it end" -- The folly of the South -- The thirty years' ...
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 ...
The American Conservative

The Prelude to the Civil War

Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861, by Robert W. Merry. Simon & Schuster, 528 pages. With Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South ...
Los Angeles Times

Our era really is like the Civil War in one key way

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. We’re one year in, and President Trump’s second term has already produced a parade of problematic historical ...
Newsweek

Plurality of Americans Believe ‘Civil War’ Likely in Next Decade—Poll

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. More Americans than not believe it is likely that the United States ...