Category: Civil War

Moncure Conway Rewrites the Past

Moncure Conway Rewrites the Past

By Frank Cirillo The author of The Abolitionist Civil War describes his efforts to separate fact from fiction in the autobiographical record of an antislavery activist. As a historian, I… READ MORE

Historical Déjà Vu

Historical Déjà Vu

By Ritchie Devon Watson The climate of division and discontent that characterized the United States during the antebellum period bears some striking resemblances to current times, Ritchie Devon Watson notes… READ MORE

Sherman and the Strains of Leadership

Sherman and the Strains of Leadership

By Eric Michael Burke In this post, Eric Michael Burke recounts the circumstances that led William Tecumseh Sherman to confess, “I have not the confidence of a Leader in this… READ MORE

Southern Ghosts of Christmas Past

Southern Ghosts of Christmas Past

Belles and Poets: Intertextuality in the Civil War Diaries of White Southern Women, a new book by Julia Nitz, analyzes the Civil War diary writing of eight white women from… READ MORE

How Britain Imagined the American Civil War

How Britain Imagined the American Civil War

The academic study of the British public’s attitude toward the American Civil War began almost a century ago with the publication of Ephraim Douglass Adams’s Great Britain and the American… READ MORE