In Second Civil War, Geographical Divide Wouldn't Be Clear-cut, Says BU Historian Nina Silber

Back in the 1860s, “people had come to see their political opponents in extreme, even demonic, ways and found it impossible to find any middle ground,” observed Nina Silber, a professor of history and American studies at Boston University and the current president of the Society of Civil War Historians.

Today, there is a “tendency toward heated and extr…