Airing on KLCS, this is a documentary about the  lasting  effects of the 1861-65  conflict on politics, economics, civil rights and foreign policy. Included are comments by former President Jimmy Carter, Robert Penn Warren, Tom Wicker and Studs Terkel.  The war the most cataclysmic event in American history--600,000 deaths, ruined cities, scorched countryside, and social revolution. It is the great and central event of our history, having captured popular and scholarly interest like no other event in our past. Historians call the Civil War our first "modern war." It ushered in the tools of death and destruction that have been developed so masterfully in modern times; and thanks to General Sherman, it began the ominous strategy of "War on the Civilian," a concept fully developed in Hiroshima and Vietnam. The program explores the ways in which the echoes of the Civil War can still be felt in American society: from politics to economics, from civil rights to foreign policy, from individual to collective memory, from South to North to West. TV-PG