Woodrow Wilson would never have been emboldened to send U.S. troops to Europe for participation in World War 1, without the precedent set by ol’ “ honest Abe “ in 1861.
The War Between The States should have never taken place, but the New York Times absolutely loved it.
As with all bloody, unnecessary wars, newspaper circulation increases.
Or the refusal of the south to consider human beings as anything but property. The south was in the wrong plus they fired first