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The American Civil War Turns 150. Get Ready for the Fight
- tokenadult 16y agoThe New York Times op-ed series Disunion http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/category/disunion/ http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/category/disunion/ is very good for reviewing the history. There are a lot of surprising facts in those articles.
- DanielBMarkham 16y agoThis is a great link. Thanks for sharing it. One of the great tragedies of the war were the folks who fiercely did not want to fight -- and how they all ended up fighting anyway. And for those of you on the mischievous side, it's fun to ask about the legality of splitting the state of Virginia, when it might be reunited again, or, indeed, the legality 1864 elections completely, since half the country didn't vote. But of course, that's just to mess with people's heads. Great article.
- nazgulnarsil 16y agoauthor can't grasp the idea of a catalyst. the civil war wasn't about the extremes of secession or bowing down to the federal government, it was just painted like that as all conflicts are. state autonomy is a spectrum not a boolean.