Harry Stout & Kristin Henderson

Is there anything left to explain about the Civil War? Since the hostilities ended 141 years ago, there have been thousands of books written on, it seems, every detail of the War Between the States. But Yale professor of American religious history Harry Stout thinks there is one key perspective that we've missed. We'll talk with him in a few minutes about his book Upon the Altar of the Nation. But first, it is self-evident that war changes people. What is not so self-evident is how it changes people who don't participate in combat, those who stay safely at home while their spouses, children, and parents go do the fighting. Kristin Henderson, herself a military spouse, explores the changes that take place, in her book While They're At War.