The American Civil War divided the nation - but not every slave state joined the Confederacy. This episode explores why key border states like Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland chose to remain in the ...

And though the fighting was concentrated in areas around the border between Southern slave states ... war were attributed to factors like disease, starvation, and accidents. (These are the ways ...

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to the outbreak of the ... that was central to the conflict. A key issue was states' rights. The Southern states wanted to assert their ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America.

Throughout the war, fighting was largely concentrated in areas around the border between Southern slave states and Northern free states. Still, Civil War ... attributed to factors like disease ...