Civil War at 150 An in-depth, scholarly exploration of the reasons behind, the players within, and the consequences of the American Civil War. Materials developed from the 2010 NEH workshop "The American Civil War at 150: New Approaches." ...
Examinations of the personal and public writings of several British leaders, as well as their actions, reveal that these reasons not only conform to their motivations but likewise demonstrate a strong conviction to beliefs which they held before the Civil War. Furthermore, these men came from ...
So, to set the scene, in the not-too-distant future, The United States has devolved into civil war again, with the forces of the so-called central United States government based out of Washington DC up against the Western Forces of Texas and California. It is a chaotic time, with compet...
The women soldiers of the Civil War engaged in combat, were wounded and taken prisoner, and were killed in action. They went to war strictly by choice, knowing the risks involved. Their reasons for doing so varied greatly. Some, like Budwin and Hook, wished to be by the sides of their...
The women soldiers of the Civil War engaged in combat, were wounded and taken prisoner, and were killed in action. They went to war strictly by choice, knowing the risks involved. Their reasons for doing so varied greatly. Some, like Budwin and Hook, wished to be by the sides of their...
the Chinese Revolution, the Russo-Japanese War, the War of 1812, the Gulf War, the American Civil War, the Italo-Abyssinian War, the Cuban Revolution, the Korean Conflict, Sino-Vietnamese War, the Franco-Prussian War, the American Revolution, the Crimean War, and far, far, far too many...
In all things he was perfectly independent. No American had the courage of his opinions more than he, and he never hesitated to say what he thought with incisive vigor. There was always a man behind his words, and that, a wise man tells us, is the secret of eloquence. Naturally he wa...
He left behind 28,000 soldiers dead, wounded or missing, more than one-third of his total army. The Union had suffered 23,000 casualties, almost as many. Gettysburg Address The Battle of Gettysburg is important in American history for several reasons. One is the large number of killed and...
The private’s real name wasSarah Emma Edmonds, and she’d enlisted in the Union Army in the spring of 1861. In hermemoir, Edmonds wrote that she’d served as both a field nurse and a spy who went undercover behind enemy lines during th...
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