The American Civil War divided the nation - but not every slave state joined the Confederacy. This episode explores why key border states like Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland chose to remain in the ...

The American ... 11 states to secede from the Union and fight for independence from the United States. Throughout the war, fighting was largely concentrated in areas around the border between ...

The American Civil War is a pivotal and ugly moment in American ... First, it left out border states like Kentucky and Delaware. And none of it would really matter if the Union didn’t prevail.

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The Civil War thus becomes the hinge moment, in which the United States ceases to be the simple constitutional union of 1787 and moves toward being a complex center-driven bureaucratic state.