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Civil War
His death prompted a quite extraordinary explosion of mourning around the world. Introduction Abraham Lincoln yearned to...
Whether we like it or not, John C. Calhoun is still very much with us today. Originally...
How did Twain’s Huckleberry Finn engage and challenge popular ideas about slavery and race in nineteenth-century America?...
How did literature help make sense of the war and the profound changes it brought to the...
It was only midway through the war that Lincoln reached the conclusion that abolishing slavery would preserve...
How did images shape the meaning of the war for people at home and the meaning of...
Although Lincoln’s image in this and the British comic press was typically pejorative, there were moments of...
Habeas corpus can constitutionally be suspended – the question is by whom, Congress or the President? By...
Americans in the deepest sense went to war in 1861 to resolve the nature of the Union...
Lincoln was a Whig for more years than he was a Republican, and a loyal Whig too....
Introduction Reconstruction is the name of the historical period following the American Civil War during which the...
The Constitutional Convention of 1789, following the Revolution, had failed to address slavery, and it took another...
Washington, DC, had never, in its brief and undistinguished history, known a social season like this one....
Andrew Johnson lacked Lincoln’s political skills and instead exhibited a stubbornness and confrontational approach. Introduction President Johnson...
Reconstruction-era governments did make genuine gains in rebuilding Southern states devastated by the war. By Tina Ulrich,...
While the Southern army dwindled, the Union simply mustered new armies and tried again. By Tina Ulrich,...
Both North and South looked to God for meaning, and each side believed—with equal fervor and certitude—that...
What happened in the first few years seems almost innocent compared to what happened in the last...
Robert Knox Sneden colored the record. A descendant of American Loyalists and born in Nova Scotia in...
Assisted by Native Americans, they moved – and fought. Introduction In 1861, as Confederate armies prepared to...
Thousands of women volunteered as nurses during the Civil War. On April 14, 1861, Fort Sumter fell—the...
In the South, segregation reproduced the racial inequality found under slavery. By Angelina Grigoryeva and Martin Ruef...
Were the Copperheads traitors or merely exercising the right to criticize the government? To what extent did...
To twenty-first-century Americans, the case against slavery may appear self-evident. However, nineteenth-century opponents of slavery faced a...
It was one of the most important Southern cities in the war and the only major Virginian...
April 1865 marked the beginning of a new battle for American abolitionists. On the same morning that...
In the first year of the Civil War, Union General Benjamin Butler used the term “contraband of...
On the motives of a reluctant memoirist. In late 1884, after delivering an evening lecture at Chickering...
Fully one in four Union fighters was foreign-born. In the summer of 1861, an American diplomat in...