Figuring Out the Causes of the Civil War

During the past 150 years, debates have broken out -- usuallyfriendly but occasionally heated -- over what caused the Civil War.&nbsp ; Even the various names given to the war, such as the “Civil War ,” or “War Between the States,” or “War of Nor thern Aggression,” hint at the different perspectives over what st arted the whole thing.  Jay Case, Professor of History at Malone Un iversity will talk about some o