“So many of the crucial issues that were connected to the Civil War, its origins and consequences, are still with us today,” said Bernard E. Powers, a history professor at the College of Charleston, in South Carolina. “You only have to think about the question of race.”

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2011/0418/150-years-later-Civil-War-still-a-delicate-subject-for-schools