**How Americans, from both the North and the South, tell the story of the Civil War.

[elleng]

MSNBC, coming up.

[Solly Mack]

1. I'm watching.

[Solly Mack]

2. I hope people are watching. Just a few minutes in and it is really good.

[Solly Mack]

3. "The war to prevent southern independence"

Wow. Damn.

Then he goes on to say that the "war to prevent southern independence" was worse for people than slavery. A far bigger injustice.

Double damn.

I don't even know what to do with that.

[elleng]

4. Ditto,

adding to the list of misery we/I'm living with.

[Stinky The Clown]

5. Not very long ago we visited Charleston, SC . . . . .

. . . . . we took two boat rides to Ft. Sumpter. The first was on a boat operated by the National Park Service. They were telling us about the Civil War. That boat was the ferry to the fort.

The next day we did a harbor tour (cuz I was home-ported there when I was in the Navy). That boat was a private tour operator. The narrator regaled us with their view of the War of Northern Aggression.

[misanthrope]

6. That cultural friction never abated

The problem with Reconstruction was that the U.S. couldn't think of a way to replace a substantial portion of Southern culture. It was the soil that successfully cultivated the problems we currently battle.

[Wounded Bear]

7. Too many commercials, but the content is first rate...nt

[Solly Mack]

8. I agree on both counts.

[roamer65]

9. The United States was a confederation until 1861.

In 1865, it became a federation when Grant told Lee “Sir, you have only one president now.” after Lee mentioned consulting Davis.

Reconstruction should have lasted well into the 1900’s, IMO.

[lark]

10. Profit & greed are always the motive.

It was the reason the southerners seceded and the reason the northerners almost killed the south for the profits of their rich folks. It's always the poor and working class that suffer on both sides.