The Limits of the Lost Cause on Civil War Memory is highly recommended for serious students of the war and its ongoing effects on society. Note: The Limits of the Lost Cause on Civil War Memory is ...

Editor’s Note: This essay series is written by Mercy Street's medical, historical and technical advisor, Stanley B. Burns, MD of The Burns Archive. At the time of the Civil War, as a result ...

He says a civil war in the U.S. is far more plausible than most people think ... He cites Carl Becker, who wrote an essay in 1941, “The Dilemma of Modern Democracy.” “When most of what you’re talking ...

Alexander Hamilton, though generally a strong proponent of presidential power, wrote in his 1793 Pacificus essay ... intervention in the Libyan civil war in 2011, on the ground that the ...

This year will highlight the Battle of Spotsylvania, known as the “Crossroads of the Civil War,” which took place in 1864.

It comprises the papers of Sir John Hotham ... It provides important evidence for attitudes to honour, the civil war in the north and the internal politics of parliament's cause. It also sheds new ...

A sand-carved etching on glass honors the 19th century legacy of Catherine B. “Kitty” Smith Springs, a little-known free woman of color whose philanthropy helped to build places to worship, learn and ...

After years in Washington, DC, soaking in the minutiae of policy, Vought had come to both know and loathe the bureaucracy. A ...

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The $8 million sculpture was funded by dozens of influential families who found a personal connection to the war. The ...

A quota system to reserve jobs in the civil service for specific groups, including descendants of war veterans, became the ...