More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War ... they believed was left to them: secession, a political decision that led directly to war.

ISBN: 0813198461 War ... aspect of the Civil War that is not addressed in familiar narratives. By destroying cultural restraints on personal conflict, the war fueled habits of personal and political ...

While most people associate secession with Civil War history, the idea of disuniting ... In fact, the first secession crisis wasn’t in the South, as you might think, but in the North.