as Americans grappled with the aftermath of the Civil War and its emerging place in collective memory
Long’s Civil War Day by Day did for our ability to understand the conflict as a whole
which gained renewed popularity after the 1993 film Gettysburg
” institutions of dubious character that nevertheless served the military and domestic necessities of the Union army and Northern households
Boutwell is as much a history of nineteenth-century US politics as it is a critique of the failures of governance during a turbulent and formative period in American history
When People Were Things: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, and the Emancipation Proclamation (Lisa Waller Rogers - BH) patagonia as Americans grappled with theDuring the three decades before the American Civil War, Southern slaveholders tried to end the anti slavery movement. They exerted their influence by censoring the press and the mail, attacking and killing abolitionists, burning buildings, drafting frightening new laws and repealing others, and terrorizing and abducting Northern free Blacks. Northerners began to realize that the Slave Power would not rest until slavery was allowed to plant itself all