The election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860 initiated a heated debate throughout the South about what Republican control of the federal government woul

Demonstrates the crucial role that the Constitution played in the coming of the Civil War.

What prompted southern secession in the winter of 1860–61 and why did secession culminate in the American Civil War? Politicians and opinion leaders on both s

Wakelyn (history, Kent State U.) presents 18 pamphlets and discusses 22 others in which southerners entreated others to support the United States and oppose the

The Civil War is the greatest trauma ever experienced by the American nation, a four-year paroxysm of violence that left in its wake more than 600,000 dead, mor