Author Erik Larson visits Fort Sumter in Charleston, S.C., where he discusses "the single most consequential day in American ...

So many books on the American Civil War have been published in the past 160 years that it’s been estimated they average out to at least one per day since the surrender at Appomattox. Still, they keep ...

1861 — one week after secessionist forces fired on Fort Sumter at the entrance to Charleston harbor in South Carolina. An anonymous collector who owned the document put it up for auction ...

1861 — one week after secessionist forces fired on Fort Sumter at the entrance to Charleston harbor in South Carolina. An anonymous collector who owned the document put it up for auction ...

Larson wrote his new book, "The Demon of Unrest," about the events leading up to the bombardment of Fort Sumter by Confederate forces – the first shots fired in the Civil War. Larson calls it ...