Learn about episode 2. The year 1862 saw the birth of modern warfare and the transformation of Lincoln's war to preserve the Union into a war to emancipate the slaves.

Reconstruction | Part 1, Hour 2. Episode 2 | 55m 58s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Post-Civil War America was a new world. For African Americans living in the former Confederacy, Reconstruction ...

Media Alec Baldwin claims America is in a 'pre-Civil War' environment after watching PBS miniseries The actor claimed that the Civil War miniseries made him realize how similar today's politics ...

More recent, Ken Burns’ influential and enormously successful 1990 PBS documentary “The Civil War” helped reshape people’s perceptions of the war, presenting slavery as the war’s root cause.