

1990–1990 · PBS · Ended
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.
This series has ended.
Last aired
S01E09 · The Better Angels of Our Nature (1865)
1990-09-27
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