Much of the confusion about a central event in United States history begins with the name: the Civil War.
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Constitution and reshaped a world order, as political and economic systems grounded in slavery and empire clashed with the democratic process of republican forms of government.
Its implications transformed the U.
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In reality, the Civil War was not merely civil--meaning national--and not merely a war, but instead an international conflict of ideas as well as armies.
Much of the confusion about a central event in United States history begins with the name: the Civil War