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' ...

James Lutzweiler of Jamestown, N.C., has written two new self-published books about South Carolina and the primary cause of the coming of the Civil War. The first is “The Train that Caused the Civil ...

Kings and Generals begins a brand-new series on the American Civil War, starting with the crucial question: why did the South secede? This setup episode dives into the political, economic, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JAMESTOWN — Local historian James Lutzweiler will present this month’s First Thursday History Program at the Jamestown Public ...

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 ...

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 ...

Both the Union and the Confederacy believed God was on their side, using faith to justify their respective causes. Tyler Rice of Columbus, Ohio is a freelance historian specializing in religion and ...