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'Pull the trigger': Civil war expert warns America is on the brink

Barbara F. Walter, author of “How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them, warned Sunday that democracy in the United States is ...

Commentary: How might future historians explain the events that led to a second civil war?

That violence became a feedback loop as one side responded to the other. Each assassination led to some form of retribution, ...
Post and Courier

Happening: 2 new books about the Civil War in South Carolina

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 ...
The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier

Nikki Haley, asked what caused the Civil War, leaves out slavery. It's not the first time

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley was asked by a New Hampshire voter about the reason for the Civil War, and she didn't mention slavery in her response — leading the voter ...
FOX 5 Atlanta on MSN

Medal of Honor recipients retrace Civil War’s Great Locomotive Chase

Thirteen Medal of Honor recipients retraced the route of the Civil War’s Great Locomotive Chase on Tuesday, a historic event ...
The American Spectator

No, Tariffs Did Not Win the Civil War

Tariffs have a long and storied history in the U.S. Tariff proponents today are correct to point out that they were the primary source of revenue for the federal government in the pre-income-tax era.