'Fire came from the sky and burned them' - life on the brink of civil war in South Sudan

Some 50,000 people are told to flee their homes as the army warns of a huge military offensive in Jonglei state.
Los Angeles Times

South Sudan’s main opposition party rejects president’s call for dialogue to avoid civil war

JUBA, South Sudan — South Sudan ’s main opposition party on Thursday dismissed a presidential call for dialogue to avoid the country slipping back into a civil war due to stalled peace talks. Pal Mai ...
Daily Breeze

South Bay History: Civil War tensions led to the creation of Wilmington’s Drum Barracks

The Drum Barracks in Wilmington was the first U.S. military base to be built in Los Angeles County. It takes its name not from the percussion instrument, but from Lt. Col. Richard Coulter Drum, the ...
insider.si.edu

How the South won the Civil War oligarchy, democracy, and the continuing fight for the soul of America Heather Cox Richardson

"While in the short term--militarily--the North won the Civil War, in the long term--ideologically--victory went to the South. The continual expansion of the Western frontier allowed a Southern ...
Libcom

Book review: David Williams' "Bitterly Divided: the South’s Inner Civil War"

The best kept secret in US history is the resistance of southerners, and especially southern non-slaveholding whites, to the slaveholders during the Civil War. W.E.B. Du Bois, in the chapter “The ...
The World from PRX

Fighting between political factions edges South Sudan toward civil war

As Sudan’s civil war rages on, the United Nations is warning that a roiling political feud in neighboring South Sudan could escalate into another fractious conflict. The World’s Host Marco Werman ...