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Hace 3 días · Ulysses S. Grant Information Center: Civil War Information about General and President Ulysses S. Grant and resources for doing research. Includes material suitable for the K-12 audience.
Hace 1 día · The Civil War is one of the most extensively studied and written about episodes in U.S. history. It was among the first wars to use industrial warfare . Railroads, the telegraph , steamships, the ironclad warship , and mass-produced weapons were all widely used during the war.
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.
Hace 1 día · In 1885, facing severe financial reversals and dying of throat cancer, Grant wrote his memoirs, covering his life through the Civil War, which were posthumously published and became a major critical and financial success.
Hace 4 días · The images, diaries, and ephemera in Grand Valley State University’s Civil War and Slavery Collection reveal the cold realities of Abraham Lincoln’s world.
Hace 5 días · In his new monograph Civil War Memories: Contesting the Past in the United States since 1865, Robert J. Cook supplies a thoughtful and eminently readable explanation for why Mrs. Lawson’s early 20th-century Alabama girlhood would have been replete with tales of Confederate heroism and honour and Yankee villainy.
Hace 4 días · The Civil War is not just relevant today, McPherson suggests, but inspirational for the future, and as much for what it failed to achieve as for all that it actually did achieve. Largely viewed through a Union, in places really a Lincoln lens, McPherson’s Civil War is both purposive and substantive.
