Summary
"More than 140 years ago, Mark Twain observed that the Civil War had 'uprooted institutions that were centuries old, changed the politics of a people, transformed the social life of half the country, and wrought so profoundly upon the entire national character that the influence cannot be measured s... Full description
- Why the Civil War Still Matters
- Mexico, California, and the Coming of the Civil War
- A Just War?
- Death and Destruction in the Civil War
- American Navies and British Neutrality During the Civil War
- The Rewards of Risk-Taking : Two Civil War Admirals
- How Did Freedom Come?
- Lincoln, Slavery, and Freedom
- A. Lincoln, Commander in Chief
- The Commander Who Would Not Fight : McClellan and Lincoln
- Lincoln's Legacy for Our Time
- War and Peace in the Post-Civil War South.