Others have said the film's subject matter seems too close to home right now. "The idea of another American civil war happening today actually keeps me up at night," wrote another reader on the ...

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to the outbreak of the ... to keep slaves and take them wherever they wished. Another factor was territorial expansion.

The ship’s pilot helped his family reach freedom, then served in the Civil War and in the U.S. Congress ... in treasonous activities against the American government—an accusation that ...

Courtesy: Library of Congress Whitman was forty-two years old when the Civil War started ... soon expect Jesus Christ to go to war." Yet Whitman found another way to serve his country.

President Donald Trump signed over 3o executive orders on his first day as president of the United States, at least five of ...