This marks the latest effort to bring North and South to the small screen. ABC broadcast a six-part miniseries over three years in 1985, 1986 and 1994 starring Patrick Swayze as Orry Main.

Discovery has announced the development of a new miniseries adaptation of John Jakes’ trilogy of “North and South” novels set during run-up to the Civil War. According to Discovery, the ...

With the period drama North and South, television out-sprawled film in the love-blood-and-tears Civil War epic department.David O. Selznick might have had Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in 1939’s ...

John Jakes, the celebrated author known for his historical North and South trilogy that sold 10 million copies and became three ABC miniseries in the 1980s and ’90s, has died. He was 90.

ABC’s “North and South” premiered in 1985 and starred Patrick Swayze as Orry Main and James Read as George Hazard. The miniseries also featured Elizabeth Taylor, Kirstie Alley, Jonathan ...

Discovery and Lionsgate are hoping they can re-create ratings history too: ABC’s North And South was such a hit with viewers, ABC turned the miniseries into a miniseries SERIES. The second at ...

North And South, the first book in the series, was published in 1982, with Love And War arriving in ’84 and Heaven And Hell in ’87. All three were bestsellers.

Civil War Miniseries ‘North and South’ Brewing at Discovery and Lionsgate. New series to come some 30 years after the Emmy-winning 'North and South' starring Kirstie Alley and Patrick Swayze.

The Current Controversy Concerning Slavery The North and the South Difficulties of the Question Mr. Raymond's Speech at Troy. LETTER FROM GEORGE WOOD, ESQ. Share full article.

The South thought new states should be free to allow slavery if they wanted. They did not want the spread of slavery to be stopped and the North to have an advantage in the US senate. It took ...

Economic systems can generate fierce loyalty, even for those who benefit from them only indirectly. Until the end of the Civil War, everyone, North and South, understood that it was a conflict ...

In fact, they argued, unlike the "wage slavery" of the North, the slavery system in the South provided food, clothing, medical care, and leisure to slaves, caring for them throughout their lives.