Inglorious Passages takes a different approach and explores a neglected subject: noncombat deaths during the U.S. Civil War. The words of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Wills comments, may seem applicable only to soldiers who lost their lives in combat. However, Lincoln's sentiments also...
aThe American Civil War was the deadliest war in American history, causing 620,000 soldier deaths, and an undetermined number of civilian casualties, ending slavery in the United States, restoring the Union, and strengthening the role of the federal government. The social, political, economic and...
What Happens:Gloryexplores the American Civil War byfocusing on the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, an African-American regiment of the Union Army. Much of the film is devoted to the relationship between Colonel Robert Gould Shaw (Matthew Broderick) and Private Silas Trip (Denzel Washington)....
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During the First World War, enemy soldiers and civilians died not just on the battlefield but also on the home front. This chapter considers the case of some 3000 Germans who lost their lives in wartime Britain. Its starting point is the multiple ways th
The confirmed number of dead is roughly equal to how many Americans died in the Civil War and World War II combined. It is as if Boston and Pittsburgh were wiped out, said the report. Three out of every four deaths were people 65 and older, according to the report. More men died than...
In 1976, for a nation worn down by Vietnam and Watergate, the Democratic governor of Georgia was a breath of fresh air – an unknown who won the White House with a promise of honesty. "I would not tell a lie, I would not mislead the American people," Jimmy Carter (October 1, 1924...
American liberalism loses its poet By TODD S. PURDUM 01/01/2015 08:50 PM EST Ex-D.C. Mayor Marion Barry dies By ASSOCIATED PRESS 11/23/2014 07:52 AM EST Longtime Rep. Phil Crane dies at 84 By ASSOCIATED PRESS 11/09/2014 02:16 PM EST Updated 11/10/2014 12:41 AM EST ...