While today's politics are fraught with division, there isn't a single issue splitting the country now, as the institution of slavery did in the build-up to the Civil War. "There's not a neat ...

America was built on the politics of division. ... This civil war itself lasted 20 years, from 1763 to 1783, but the ensuing cold war and residual battles with Britain did not end until 1815.

Reflections on the Civil War and our current state of division / Politics and law, The Social Order. April 05, 2019 ... At home that evening, I sat the kids down to watch Episode Five of Ken Burns’s ...

Racial Division After the Civil War. 581 Views Program ID: 322562-1 Category: Public Affairs Event Format: Speech Location: Burlington, Vermont, United States First Aired: ...

"This is as bad as it's ever gotten [except] perhaps [during] the Civil War," Hume told host Martha MacCallum. "So the challenge for leaders at a time like this is [to] attempt to tamp us down ...

In 1963, a century after Gettysburg, Martin Luther King Jr. invoked Lincoln's words and the legacy of the Civil War in calling on the nation to pay its "promissory note" to black Americans, which ...

This US state saw some 50% of the nation's Civil War casualties. Now, mass construction of AI data centres is encroaching on ...

In a recent poll conducted by the Institute of Politics at Harvard, 35 percent of voting-age Americans under 30 placed the odds of a second civil war at 50 percent or higher.

For historians, this question leads back to the 1850s and the debate over what brought the nation to civil war. The 2020s are vastly different from the 1850s in terms of technology, demographics ...

Civil War cemeteries remind us of past division - and importance of common ground. ... Visiting this cemetery helped me understand more of how the Civil War still has an effect on our family today.