Overview
The Causes and Consequences of Civil Wars
In April of 1861, Confederate batteries opened fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor and there followed the American Civil War. Does it matter who fired the first shot? Did that shot make the war inevitable? The example of Sumter raises all kinds of other questions about how and why civil wars begin and end.
- 2010 NCHE Conference Recap
- 2010 Conference Program
