Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen service members. But it’s come to anchor the unofficial ...

In the Civil War South, death was omnipresent ... equal to—perhaps even greater than—the total U.S. deaths in the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Spanish-American ...

The Civil War between the United States and the Confederacy ... The Confederacy had exhausted its resources, and the landscape of the American South was destroyed. They could no longer stand ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Compared with other aspects of the Civil War, the experience of the veteran was surprisingly overlooked until relatively recently. Of late, however, scholars have has begun examining the story of the ...