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2 days ago · Learn about the four-year war (1861–65) between the United States and the Confederate States of America over slavery and states' rights. Explore the causes, events, significance, and controversies of the American Civil War with Britannica.
- The Naval War
American Civil War - Naval Battles, Blockades, Ironclads: In...
- The Emancipation Proclamation
American Civil War - Emancipation, Slavery, Union: Lincoln...
- African American Troops
The Emancipation Proclamation also allowed Black men to...
- The War in 1864–65
American Civil War - Union, Confederacy, Emancipation:...
- The Southern Home Front
American Civil War - Secession, Slavery, Homefront: By 1863...
- The Land War
American Civil War - Battles, Armies, Impact: A strong...
- Sherman's Campaigns, Total War
American Civil War - Sherman's Campaigns, Total War: In 1864...
- Conscription, Draft Riot, NYC
American Civil War - Conscription, Draft Riot, NYC: The...
- The Naval War
23 hours ago · A comprehensive overview of the civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy from 1861 to 1865. Learn about the causes, events, outcomes, and legacy of the war that abolished slavery and preserved the nation.
2 days ago · Some have called the American Civil War the last of the old-fashioned wars; others have termed it the first modern war. Actually, it was a transitional war, and it had a profound impact, technologically, on the development of modern weapons and techniques.
2 days ago · The Civil War. Prelude to war, 1850–60. Sectionalism and slavery; A decade of political crises. Popular sovereignty; Polarization over slavery; Secession and the politics of the Civil War, 1860–65. The coming of the war; The political course of the war. Moves toward emancipation; Sectional dissatisfaction; Fighting the Civil War. Foreign ...
1 day ago · Battle of Fort Sumter. President Lincoln's 75,000 volunteers. v. t. e. The origins of the American Civil War are rooted in the desire of the Southern states to preserve the institution of slavery. [1] Historians in the 21st century overwhelmingly agree on the centrality of slavery in the conflict.
1 day ago · The English Civil War was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Royalists and Parliamentarians in the Kingdom of England [b] from 1642 to 1651. Part of the wider 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms, the struggle consisted of the First English Civil War and the Second English Civil War.
23 hours ago · Buy Book. In his insightful book “A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War,” the historian David S. Brown makes a convincing case for ...
