What actually caused the Civil War?

” has been debated since the horrific conflict ended in 1865. As with most wars, however, there was no single cause. Instead, the Civil War erupted from a variety of longstanding tensions and disagreements about American life and politics. read more

John C. Calhoun: He Started the Civil War If one person could be called the instigator of the Civil War, it was John C. Calhoun -- genius pragmatist, and racist. Abraham Lincoln: Tyrant, Hypocrite or Consummate Statesman The key to understanding Abraham Lincoln's philosophy of statesmanship is that he always sought the meeting point between what was right in theory and what could be achieved in practice. read more

For the history of theology in America, the great tragedy of the Civil War is that the most persuasive theologians were the Rev. Drs. William Tecumseh Sherman and Ulysses S. Grant. There were many causes of the Civil War, but the religious conflict, almost unimaginable in modern America, cut very deep at the time. read more