The Civil War started 165 years ago this year

On July 4, the United States of America will celebrate its 250th anniversary. There’s also another major historical ...
Kings and Generals on MSN

How the American Civil War began

The American Civil War erupted in 1861 with the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, followed soon after by the First Battle of Bull Run. This video traces the opening shots of the war, the shockwaves ...
The New Yorker

Was the Civil War Inevitable?

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 ...
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 ...
Post and Courier

Visitors to Charleston historical sites are being asked to report 'negative' stories about America

SULLIVAN'S ISLAND — Some of the Confederate shots that started the Civil War were fired from here. And today, if you don't like what you hear or see about the story you can report it for being ...