In the 1860s a house divided went to war. Secession followed Lincoln’s election, Fort Sumter opened four years of unprecedented bloodshed, emancipation transformed the conflict, and the Union’s hard-won victory left a shattered South and a nation struggling to define freedom and citizenship. Jim Rand walks through the decade of secession, sacrifice, the Reconstruction Amendments, and the fragile, unfinished work of rebuilding a country that had nearly destroyed itself.

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