The Civil War | Promotion | Q & A: Civil War Interest
Ken Burns shares how his interest in the Civil War came about after noticing it was the central event in American History.
Ken Burns shares how his interest in the Civil War came about after noticing it was the central event in American History.
Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers if only to become the kind of country that could no longer conceive of how that was possible. What began as a bitter dispute over Union and States' Rights, ended as a struggle over the meaning of freedom in America.