The EconomistOpinion

The evil and the good in the American civil war

Nor, despite our warning against prediction, did we doubt it would end badly for the South. The North had factories and ...
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 ...
Opinion

America’s original sin: When compromise on morality led to Civil War | PennLive letters

History's lesson is clear—political deals on fundamental human rights don't preserve the Union, they poison it. Two failed presidents proved that appeasement of racism only deepens division.
The American Prospect

The War Between the States, Part II

Among the many things on which the South disagreed with Abraham Lincoln was the term “civil war.” Confederates termed it “the war of Union aggression,” doing the kind of up-is-down expression of ...