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Reflections on Hewitt's statements about the "Lost Cause"

cenantua wrote 4 months ago: I found Hewitt’s comments about the Lost Cause while surfing the Web a couple of years ago and … more »

Tags: American Civil War, Civil War Memory - General, Reflections on "personal memory" of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, William Hewitt, Lost Cause mythology, This Might Scourge, Grand Army of the Republic, United Confederate Veterans

Rotov on Suffering

Rene Tyree wrote 5 months ago: Catching up on my reading, I found Dimitri Rotov’s post [here] on Drew Gilpin Faust’s Th … more »

Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Dimitri Rotov, Drew Gilpin Faust, American Civil War, This Republic of Suffering, Civil War Historians, historians

Were the North and South Evenly Matched...on the Rails?6 comments

Rene Tyree wrote 6 months ago: One of the questions that was much debated in class was whether the North and South were evenly matc … more »

Tags: Archer Jones, Railroads, The American Civil War, Beauregard, johnston, Civil War, Confederate, union, Steam engines

Exploring Causes of the Civil War - Part V: The Rise of Sectional Disputes

Rene Tyree wrote 7 months ago: This post continues a series on Exploring Causes of the Civil War. Other posts can be read by clicki … more »

Tags: Abolitionism, Antebellum America, Antebellum North, Antebellum South, Slavery, American Anti-Slavery Society, Avery Craven, industrialization, Library Of Congress

Exploring Causes of the Civil War - Part III - The Antebellum South

Rene Tyree wrote 7 months ago: The Southern man aspired to a lifestyle that had, as utopian model of success, the English country … more »

Tags: Antebellum America, Antebellum South, Avery Craven, Library Of Congress, Slavery, Causes of the American Civil War, Civil War, Hamiltonian industrialization, Jeffersonian agrarianism

Exploring Causes of the Civil War - Part II - Antebellum America

Rene Tyree wrote 7 months ago: In the last post, I kicked off a series looking at the causes of the American Civil War. Study of 19 … more »

Tags: Civil War, Puritanism, Antebellum America, Whigs, Federalists, American Civil War, antebellum, Jeffersonian, Antebellum American

The Civil War as Revolution - Part V

Rene Tyree wrote 7 months ago: [Note: This post continues a series on The Civil War as Revolution which is available at the followi … more »

Tags: Civil War as revolution, Emancipation, presentism, Reconstruction, Slavery, American Revolution, black literacy, counterrevolution, Freedmen's Bureau

The Civil War as Revolution - Part IV

Rene Tyree wrote 7 months ago: [Note: This post continues a series on The Civil War as Revolution which is available at the follow … more »

Tags: barrington moore, beard, Civil War as revolution, George Clemenceau, Slavery, Civil War, Roger Ransom, mary beard, charles beard

The Civil War as Revolution - Part III

Rene Tyree wrote 7 months ago: [Note: This post is part of a series on The Civil War as Revolution which is available at the follow … more »

Tags: barrington moore, Civil War, Revolutionary, Alexander Gardner, American Civil War, Civil War as revolution, Devil's Den, Gettysburg, golden spike ceremony

The Civil War as Revolution - Part II

Rene Tyree wrote 8 months ago: [Note: This post continues a series on The Civil War as Revolution which is available at the follow … more »

Tags: barrington moore, beard, Civil War, Civil War as revolution, Revolutionary, capitalist bourgeoisie, charles beard, Class Conflict, counter-revisionists

The Civil War as Revolution - Part I

Rene Tyree wrote 8 months ago: [Note: This post is part of a series on The Civil War as Revolution which is available at the foll … more »

Tags: Civil War, Civil War as revolution, Lincoln, Mark Twain, Revolutionary, Abraham Lincoln as Revolutionary, advancement of mankind, Freedom, G.W.F. Hegel

Why Men Fought in the Civil War 3 comments

Rene Tyree wrote 8 months ago: Men who hurried to sign up for the armies of the North and South in the early years of the American … more »

Tags: Books, Civil War, soldiers, Cowadice, Photographs, Why men fought in the Civil War, Victorian America, Motivation, Manliness

Review: This Mighty Scourge by James McPherson

Mike F. wrote 9 months ago: James M. McPherson, This Mighty Scourge; Perspectives on the Civil War (Oxford: Oxford University Pr … more »

Tags: Books, Civil War, Reviews


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