causes of the civil war

• Your Views

History repeats itself Re "Voices of the Civil War," front page, April 10: I thank The Pilot for its thoughtful exploration of the causes of the Civil War. One seldom acknowledged cause of that war was economic fear.

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• April 18, 2011

• How Do We Remember Our Confederate History?

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell recently issued a proclamation recognizing April 2010 as Confederate History Month. This year and next mark an important milestone: 150 years have passed since the secession of the Southern states and the war that followed. The controversy over the governor's statements about the Confederacy and its history reveal that how we remember the causes of the Civil War has been tangled up for so long with the white South's Lost Cause that many people, including McDonnell, have had trouble seeing these issues with any clarity at all.

• Roanoke Times & World News
• April 18, 2010

• Patriotism vs. Nationalism: the new Civil War film Gods and Generals accurately depicts the true causes of that tragic conflict, and the Christian faith and nobility of those who fought.

In his morally obtuse review, movie critic Roger Ebert sneers that the Civil War film Gods and Generals "is the kind of movie beloved by people who ne...

• The New American
• March 24, 2003

• Books Suggest That Lessons of the Civil War Remain Relevant

Can anything new be said about the American Civil War? Although the causes and campaigns have all been examined by ranks of historians, many books are coming this spring for the 150th anniversary of the war's start on April 12, 1861, when Confederate guns fired on Fort Sumter. More than 100 books -- new works and reissues, visual guides and comprehensive histories -- offer unexpected angles and fresh interpretations of the battles and key figures we thought we knew.

• Tribune - Review / Pittsburgh Tribune - Review
• April 10, 2011

• States' Rights Were a Factor in the Civil War

Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell as, in my opinion, unfairly criticized for not mentioning slavery in his original Confederate History Month proclamation ("Obama: Slavery omission 'unacceptable,' " Web, National, Friday). In any event, he apologized the next day, stating that the original document had been meant to promote tourism in Virginia, which next year marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. There are two questions here that need to be considered. First, was the governor deliberately trying to be demeaning by not mentioning slavery? Second, why are we still arguing about the causes of the Civil War 150 years later?

• The Washington Times
• April 16, 2010

• Pulitzer-Winning Historian to Speak

Pulitzer Prize winner Gordon Wood will present "The Revolutionary Origins of the Civil War" at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27 at the Culture Center as part of the West Virginia Humanities Council's annual McCreight Lecture. The event is free and open to the public. A book signing and reception will follow the lecture. Wood is an emeritus professor of history at Brown University and an authority on the founding of the United States. This program is his first appearance in West Virginia. His talk will examine how the fundamental principles of the Founding Fathers affected the causes, strategies and outcome of the Civil War.

• Sunday Gazette-Mail
• October 10, 2011

• Epistle to Philemon Raises Many Questions

One of the shortest books in the Bible and one of the most problematic for the faithful as well as scholars is the very brief Epistle to Philemon. Written by the Apostle Paul at an uncertain date, it is a brief 25 verses long, and 335 words in the original Greek. Martin Luther called the book a "work of holy flattery," and Christians on both sides of the American Civil War cited it in support of their ideological causes.

• Redlands Daily Facts
• September 16, 2009

• Officials Relate Race, Income to Health

PETERSBURG -- Health officials weren't surprised when lead paint poisoning spiked in this majority-black city of Civil War-era homes. More striking was one of the causes -- inability to afford freshly painted housing, said Michael Royster, a former district health director who helped emphasize low income among the poisoning risk factors Petersburg officials now recognize.

• Progress - Index, The; Petersburg, Va.
• June 23, 2010

• Jonah Hex

During the Civil War, Hex (Josh Brolin) causes the death of his buddy (unclear), so his buddy's dad, General Quentin Turnbull (John Malkovich), drops by, spittin' mad. Tumbull monologues for a bit, then burns up Hex's family, and brands his initials on Hex's face (totally clear). The injured Hex istaken in by Crow Indians, and recuperates: He is badly scarred and angry (clear) and able to talk to the dead (unclear). Now Hex roams the land in his dirty old uniform, killing wanted men for bounty (clear) while being wanted himself (unclear). When [Hex] isn't shooting cackling bad guys, blowing up towns or having visions with lots of crows in 'em, he's showing off his scars to LJIah (Megan Fox), the cleanest prostitute in this one-horse town. (Such shiny hair!) As befits the genre, Lilah's ...

• Pittsburgh City Paper
• July 01, 2010

• States Eye Social Factors' Impact On Health: ; Question: Why Do Minorities Outpace Whites in Cases of Diabetes, Other Maladies?

PETERSBURG, Va. - Health officials weren't surprised when lead paint poisoning spiked in this mostly black city of Civil War-era homes. More striking was one of the causes - inability to afford freshly painted housing, said Michael Royster, a former district health director who helped emphasize low income among the poisoning risk factors Petersburg officials now recognize.

• Charleston Gazette
• December 18, 2007