In other words, the South and its supporters engaged in large ... "I think northern whites had the very real problems of governance after the Civil War," Blum explained. "They needed to govern ...

As Rhett Butler pointed out in "Gone with the Wind," there were just some things the South lacked during the Civil War era that the North had in massive amounts — and it just so happened that ...

But the schisms ran deeper than just North against South—there were ... it was also a huge win for abolitionists. This was really an announcement that the Civil War was no longer a war just ...

In the South, most slaves did not hear of the proclamation for months. But the purpose of the Civil War had now changed. The North was not only fighting to preserve the Union, it was fighting to ...

Like other scholars looking at these issues, Walter said the US isn't heading toward a conflict akin to the fight between the North and South. "When people think about civil war, they think about ...

"The cause of the Civil War was slavery." She said that when trying to understand "why" the North and South ... Abraham Lincoln won the presidential election in 1860, South Carolina seceded ...