Posted in Civil War, Civil War Memory, Counterfactual, Race in America, Slavery, The South on May 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
These commercials are from the film The Confederate States of America, which is a movie that tackles this question: what may have happened if the Confederacy won the civil war? It is an interesting film and would recommend it for anyone interested in the Civil War.
The Shackle:
Passing:
Runaway:
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Posted in Legacies of War, Soldiers on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I posted this on my other blog, Publius, and thought that it is relevent to this blog.
I came across this article written by Hal Moore, former Lt. General in the US Army and author of the memoir We Were Soldiers Once…And Young. Moore tells how the mutual experiences of war can make men who were [...]
Posted in Welcome on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I started this blog as a forum for me to write about the area of history that interests me the most; the Civil War. I have been a student of this war for years. The first history books I read were about this war and now, as a graduate history student, I am specializing in [...]
Posted in Abolition, Abraham Lincoln, American Democracy, Civil War, Civil War Memory, Political History, Race in America, Uses of History on May 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Since historians, as well as other writers, started writing about Abraham Lincoln, there have been those who have worked hard to give us a well-rounded image of the 16th president. Lincoln is the most written about figure in American history and hundreds of books about him are published each year. Our historical knowledge of Lincoln [...]
