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Hace 1 día · American Civil War, four-year war (1861–65) fought between the United States and 11 Southern states that seceded to form the Confederate States of America. It arose out of disputes over slavery and states’ rights. When antislavery candidate Abraham Lincoln was elected president (1860), the Southern states seceded.
- The Emancipation Proclamation
American Civil War - Emancipation, Slavery, Union: Lincoln...
- The Military Background of The War
American Civil War - Secession, Battles, Armies: Although...
- The Southern Home Front
American Civil War - Secession, Slavery, Homefront: By 1863...
- The War in 1863
American Civil War - Gettysburg, Emancipation, Union:...
- Cost, Significance, Impact
The enormous death rate—roughly 2 percent of the 1860...
- The Naval War
American Civil War - Naval Battles, Blockades, Ironclads: In...
- The Emancipation Proclamation
Hace 23 horas · Portal. v. t. e. The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which had been formed by states that had seceded from the Union. The central conflict leading to the war was the dispute over whether ...
- April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865, (4 years, 1 month and 2 weeks)
- Dissolution of the Confederate States of America
Hace 1 día · Despite this, however, Cook points out that ‘the shoots of reconciliation were bursting out everywhere’, pointing to a generational change through, in what he calls a ‘tectonic shift’ in Civil War memory, the sons and daughters of veterans began to prioritize a national future ‘largely untainted by the damaging fissures’ of civil war (pp. 107, 97).
Hace 3 días · If the American literature that Emerson had summoned into being in the 1830s and '40s helped galvanize opinion that led to the Civil War, the Civil War in turn changed what that literature would be, and this poem by Whitman is just an example of that. Ralph Waldo Emerson, ca. 1872. Image courtesy of the New York Public Library.
Hace 5 días · A compilation of quality websites containing primary sources about the Civil War. Included are collections of digitized letters, diaries, photographs, maps, official records, battlefield dispatches, and resources about slavery and abolition. From the Association of College and Research Libraries.
Hace 5 días · Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2010, ISBN: 9780674045897; 456pp.; Price: £25.95. Confederate Reckoning is a ‘political history of the unfranchised’ (p. 7). It joins a significant body of scholarship that has sought to expand the category of ‘the political’ by ...
Hace 4 días · April 29, 2024. Illustration by João Fazenda. Alex Garland’s new film, “ Civil War ,” follows two war photographers on a road trip from New York to Washington, D.C., via the blue highways ...
