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A Civil War Sesquicentennial Review of the Recent Literature


Civil War Sesquicentennial - Encyclopedia of Arkansas

The Civil War Sesquicentennial was commemorated in Arkansas from 2011 to 2015. The planning of events related to the sesquicentennial began in 2007.

Book Reviews Archives - Page 13 of 39 - Civil War Monitor

Philip Gerard's The Last Battleground: The Civil War ... articles in Our State: Celebrating North Carolina magazine commemorating the Civil War's sesquicentennial ...

Michael Bernath reviews Adam Goodheart's book "1861: The Civil ...

At its sesquicentennial, a fresh, revealing narrative of the advent of the Civil War. ... We are in the midst of a perfect storm of new Civil War books. With the ...

Origins of the American Civil War - Wikipedia

Historians in the 21st century overwhelmingly agree on the centrality of slavery in the conflict. They disagree on which aspects (ideological, economic, ...

Texas in the Civil War - Texas Historical Commission

Thousands more civilians lent hearts and hands on the home front. They distinguished themselves in every major campaign of the war from New Mexico to ...

The Civil War, 150 years later - BookPage

Thousands of books have responded to that abiding interest. Armed with these four new releases, readers can march confidently into the sesquicentennial, the ...

Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission

As we enter the 150th anniversary of a war that changed the social, economic and political nature of Arkansas forever, it is vitally important to reflect on the ...

Lost Cause | Meaning, Myth, Ideology, History, Significance, & Facts

An enormous war and bloodletting, unprecedented in modern U.S. history, had to somehow be put aside and a new order imagined and executed. Was ...

Len's Book Review: The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History

It is strong on facts but biased in the interpretation of those facts and their meaning. Ironically, the last essay by Lloyd Hunter on The ...

A Fire Never Extinguished: How the Civil War Continues to Shape ...

Although the sesquicentennial of the Civil War ends in five months, the presentations and discussions at the conference, "will seek to identify ...

Curriculum Vitae - Researchers @ Brown

Review of Harry V. Jaffa, A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War, in the American Historical Review, 106. ( ...

Civil War Sesquicentennial National Traveling Exhibition: “Lincoln

The exhibition · The Introduction lays out the three critical questions—concerning slavery, secession, and civil liberties—facing the nation in 1860, when ...

Love and the Civil War - AAIHS

Women and men, civilians and soldiers, white and black, had come together to mark the sesquicentennial of the Grand Review of the Armies, a two- ...

James I Robertson Jr Civil War Sesquicentennial Legacy Collection

The James I. Robertson Jr. Civil War Sesquicentennial Legacy Collection documents the people of our nation and commonwealth during the Civil War era.

Introduction: New Answers for Old Questions about the Civil War-Era ...

Also focusing on politics within the army, Jonathan White takes issue with McPherson's assertion that the large number of Union soldiers who voted for Lincoln ...

EXECUTIVE ORDER No. 2007-52 - State of Michigan

OBSERVING THE SESQUICENTENNIAL OF THE CIVIL WAR. DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, ARTS, AND LIBRARIES. WHEREAS, Section 1 of Article V of the Michigan Constitution of ...

A Look Back at the American Civil War Sesquicentennial

David Silkenat will discuss the Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War with Dr Paul Quigley and Dr Kim Kutz of Virginia Center for Civil ...

Books - Allen C. Guelzo

... current Civil War sesquicentennial as Bruce Catton's books did 50 years ago during the war's centennial. Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War ...

72:4 Book Review: Searching for Black Confederates

However, this book could be a bit weighty for the casual reader of American history or even Civil War history; the author at times seems to try too hard to ...

NCA History Program / Outreach - National Cemetery Administration

Interpretive Signs in VA National Cemeteries: Commemorating the Civil War Sesquicentennial, 2011–2015 ... recent memorial walks. Monumental Minnesota ...