The civil war

"Your horrid war troubles anger me sometimes," the English social critic John Ruskin wrote a friend in the United States in 1862. "The roar-of it seems to clang in the blue sky. You poor mad things-what will become of you ?"
The story of what became of us during that conflict unfolds in the pages of The Civil War. From the decades before the clash - when the issues that divided the country outlived every attempt at compromise through the opening gunshot, to t... >Voir plus