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Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers — if only to become the kind of country that could no longer conceive of how that was possible. What began as a bitter dispute over Union and States' Rights, ended as a struggle over the meaning of freedom in America.
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Ken Burns Civil War Interview
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The Civil War: Fort Sumter
The Civil War: Gettysburg
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The Civil War: The Cause
The Civil War: The Gettysburg Address
