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Hace 2 días · Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, toward the end of which he was appointed the overall commander of the Confederate States Army. He led the Army of Northern Virginia —the Confederacy's most powerful army—from 1862 until its surrender in 1865, earning a ...
Hace 2 días · t. e. 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. The central conflict leading to the war was the dispute over whether slavery would ...
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 · Robert J. Cook. Baltimore, MD, John Hopkins University Press, 2017, ISBN: 9781421423494; 288pp.; Price: £18.50. Reviewer: Jack Noe. University of Leeds. Citation: Jack Noe, review of Civil War Memories: Contesting the Past in the United States Since 1865, (review no. 2238) DOI: 10.14296/RiH/2014/2238. Date accessed: 13 May, 2024.
Hace 1 día · From the unyielding determination of Ulysses S. Grant to the tactical brilliance of Robert E. Lee, each commander brought unique strengths and challenges to the battlefield. Their decisions ...
Hace 2 días · If the American literature that Emerson had summoned into being in the 1830s and '40s helped galvanize opinion that led to the Civil War, the Civil War in turn changed what that literature would be, and this poem by Whitman is just an example of that. Ralph Waldo Emerson, ca. 1872. Image courtesy of the New York Public Library.
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 ...
