Civil War history is a road well-traveled. But how did we get there? Where did it take us? Did we arrive at our planned destination or get lost along the way? Join me as we travel down four roads, exploring how this amazing odyssey transformed our nation. The Road to War: Why did we go to war against each other? Is it all the fault of Massachusetts? Or South Carolina? How about both? The Road to Freedom: Why did it take so long to free the enslaved? Was it really a war to preserve the Union? The Road to Transformation: How did formerly obscure people like Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman become household names? The Road to Chaos: How did we get to Jim Crow? Guest Civil War scholars will be invited to zoom in and share their knowledge, and we will have two local field trips. We will also read and discuss The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward (about 200 pages).