Two videos: A West Point teacher for Prager U., and Tom Richey doing a correction on the facts that were misleading or incorrect. Several of them made me laugh.
Was the Civil War About Slavery? - Prager U.
Was the Civil War About Slavery? (Richey Reacts to PragerU) You can just feel the love for Prager U. in the comments on both!
The latter video makes the point that things were not as black-and-white as a lot of the oversimplifications of the Civil War make it. The Northern states had enormous power over the South, far more dominance than the South had in industry, population, and legislative influence. I read recently that Lincoln won the election (among 4 candidates) with only 39.8% of the vote in 1860. Without even winning all the Northern states! While slavery was central, the larger issue is the dominance and economic exclusion the North was gaining over the South, that the slavery issue was a manifestation of.
