- Slavery and the American South
- The Northern Abolitionist Movement
- 1800–1858: The North and the South Seek Compromise
- 1857–1861: The South Prepares to Secede
- 1861: Creation of the Confederacy
- Europe's View of the War
- 1861: The War Begins
- 1862: Near Victory for the Confederacy
- 1863: The Tide Turns
- Women in the Civil War
- 1864: The North Tightens Its Grip
- Blacks in the Civil War
- 1865: Victory for the North
- 1865–1877: Reconstruction
