American Civil War: Outbreak (TRIH ep 201, part 2)
1861 · Resource
This is part two of The Rest Is History’s examination of the American Civil War. Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook are joined by scholar Adam Smith to discuss why secession became irreversible and why the North chose to fight to restore the Union. They consider the motivations of Southern elites, Robert E.
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Around 1861
- American Civil War (1861)
- Crimean War (1853)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- German unification (1871)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)