Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

So successful was the Lost Cause propaganda campaign that most Americans forgot the true meaning of the Civil War.

Richard Kreitner’s deeply researched book about the Civil War era illuminates the lives of six Jewish Americans and their ...

“Boy, you can see now that we are in a pre-Civil War culture now,” the “30 Rock ... and age and what life was like back then, and cotton and slavery,” Baldwin, 66, said.

“Boy, you can see now that we are in a pre-Civil War culture now,” Baldwin ... age and what life was like back then and cotton and slavery and Lincoln and Robert E. Lee and so forth.” ...

"And boy, you can see now that we are in a pre-Civil War culture now ... and cotton, and slavery, and Lincoln, and Robert E. Lee and so forth," Baldwin explained. "But I look at the politics ...

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

Some may have supported slavery because they feared losing the ... For better and, in the case of the pre-Civil War South, for much worse, Jews are no different from anyone else.