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Hace 3 días · In AMERICAN CIVIL WARS: A Continental History, 1850-1873 (Norton, 534 pp., $39.99), Taylor, a University of Virginia historian who has won the Pulitzer Prize twice, takes a broad look at the lead ...
Hace 5 días · Buy Book. Alan Taylor, a professor at the University of Virginia, offers compelling new insights in “American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873,” a fine addition to his series of ...
Hace 2 días · He is agitated a lot of the time. He is a part of a unit that began with 160 men. By the end of the war, there are only twenty-some left, and he is one of them. One of his friends said, “George, you are the luckiest man I ever knew,” because he gets shot, he gets captured, but he just keeps going.
Hace 2 horas · From 1936 to 1939, the Spanish civil war divided neighbours, friends and families, and people both inside and outside Spain kept a close eye on what was happening in the country. Two of the best ...
Hace 1 día · Synopsis A masterful history of the Civil War and its reverberations across the continent by a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. In a fast-paced narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, the award-winning historian Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty-year period in which North America’s three largest countries—the United States, Mexico, and Canada ...
Hace 2 días · John Brown. 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.
Hace 4 días · Updated on May 18, 2024. The question “What caused the U.S. Civil War?” has been debated since the horrific conflict ended in 1865. As with most wars, however, there was no single cause. The Civil War erupted from a variety of longstanding tensions and disagreements about American life and politics.
