David Blight: Like the destroyed abbeys of 17th-century England in the English civil war, which are still all over the English landscape... the South now ... appeared to be. America for the ...

Almost exactly 160 years ago, the American Civil War wound down to a messy and anticlimactic end. By December 1864, it was apparent the Union had prevailed. It didn’t necessarily win, but at least ...

Using the First Civil War analogy, American unity was achieved only after the South was vanquished and slavery abolished. How are those of us who oppose left-wing nihilism – there is no other ...

Richard Kreitner’s deeply researched book about the Civil War era illuminates the lives of six Jewish Americans and their varying stances toward abolition ...

President Grant gave the pen he used to sign the 15th Amendment to a fellow Civil War veteran ... to redistribute land to black laborers in the South, he left no doubt of his extreme solicitude ...

Essays on the Effects of the Civil War on the South in the Post Bellum Era. Some of the papers will prove primarily of interest to academic scholars, dealing with questions of influences on his ...

The American Civil ... The story of the Civil War is all about division within one’s own country. But the schisms ran deeper than just North against South—there were also cracks within the ...

Challenges: As for all post-Civil War presidents, the dominant issues in governance at the time of Ulysses S. Grant’s tenure were related to the South and African-American civil rights. Reconstruction ...

After the Civil ... war, of a free, black settlement, named for the hated Union, made a dramatic claim to equality and liberty. The passionate man labeled as the “most influential African ...