1861, the cause
By: WETA ; a Florentine Films production ; a film by Ken Burns
Contributors: McCullough, David G.; WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.); Florentine Films
Series: The Civil War -- Episode 1; Civil War -- 1.; HIS 220A (NU course)
Published: 1990
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 39
Subjects: Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861; History; Causes; Campaigns
Other titles: Cause [videorecording]
Description: Beginning with a dramatci indictment of slavery, this first episode dramatically evokes the causes of war, from the Cotton Kingdom of the South to the northen abolitionists who opposed it.  Here are the burning questions of Union and States' Rights.  John Brown at Harper's Ferry, and the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, the firing on Fort Sumter and the jubilant rush to arms on both sides.
Notes: Title from container.

Taped off-air from WHYY-TV, Phila., Pa.

Off-air license through PBS Video.

VHS.

Executive producer, Ken Burns.

David McCullough.