An Assessment of the American Civil War Sesquicentennial
Does the fact that events occurred 150 years ago give them a significance that differs from any other year? Bound to it is the Civil War’s meaning in America today. Continue reading
View ArticleThe United States Christian Commission and the Civil War Dead
To aid in the identification of remains, and to alleviate the distress felt by bereaved families unable to ascertain the final resting-place of their sons, the Christian Commission distributed small...
View ArticleSongs about Rebels: The American Civil War in modern country music
Each of these songs link into what Geoff Mann has called country music’s ‘narrative of loss,’ in that they recall and reconstruct what has allegedly been lost in history – on material, emotional and...
View Article“The Land Entire Saturated”: Commemorating the Civil War Dead at 150 years
April 9th, 2015 marked the sesquicentennial commemoration of the surrender of the General Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia to the Army of the Potomac under the command of General Grant. The surrender...
View Article‘Now comes good sailing’: Henry David Thoreau’s Cape Cod (1865) and Early...
Although the text for May’s forthcoming #bookhour discussion, Henry David Thoreau’s Cape Cod, has never attracted scholarship in the way that Walden, ‘Resistance to Civil Government’, and the Journal...
View ArticleAn Assessment of the American Civil War Sesquicentennial
Does the fact that events occurred 150 years ago give them a significance that differs from any other year? Bound to it is the Civil War’s meaning in America today. Continue reading The post An...
View ArticleThe United States Christian Commission and the Civil War Dead
To aid in the identification of remains, and to alleviate the distress felt by bereaved families unable to ascertain the final resting-place of their sons, the Christian Commission distributed small...
View ArticleSongs about Rebels: The American Civil War in modern country music
Each of these songs link into what Geoff Mann has called country music’s ‘narrative of loss,’ in that they recall and reconstruct what has allegedly been lost in history – on material, emotional and...
View Article“The Land Entire Saturated”: Commemorating the Civil War Dead at 150 years
April 9th, 2015 marked the sesquicentennial commemoration of the surrender of the General Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia to the Army of the Potomac under the command of General Grant. The surrender...
View Article‘Now comes good sailing’: Henry David Thoreau’s Cape Cod (1865) and Early...
Although the text for May’s forthcoming #bookhour discussion, Henry David Thoreau’s Cape Cod, has never attracted scholarship in the way that Walden, ‘Resistance to Civil Government’, and the Journal...
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