BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN For a nation that that loves anniversaries, the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the American Civil War – April 12, 1861 – crept by on tiptoe, like a burglar slipping through a darkened house. Yet the Civil War was, given the size of the population at the time, a fearful killer. […]
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The Bloody War That Millions of Americans Prefer To Overlook
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