Nor, despite our warning against prediction, did we doubt it would end badly for the South. The North had factories and ...

Meanwhile, states such as Arkansas, Virginia, North Carolina and Missouri not only established commissions months, if not years ago, but also have ambitious plans for remembrance around well-known ...

Hundreds of thousands of Americans North and South fought in the Civil War, including a Union drummer boy named Albert Woolson. He couldn’t have known it in 1864 when he enlisted at age 14, but at the ...

Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2016, titled "A physical wreck of his former self" : gender and disability in the post Civil War north "Disabled ...

Out of guilt or amnesia, we tend to treat wars, in retrospect, as natural disasters: terrible but somehow inevitable, beyond anyone’s control. Shaking your fist at the fools who started the First ...

The answer is no. These Critical Questions use core findings from the academic literature on civil wars and political violence to situate recent tragic events and fundamentally challenge the notion ...