Statement by US Historians on Recently Released Confederate ...
Myths & Misunderstandings: The Emancipation Proclamation Archives
... United States on the verge of civil war. Plan your visit to ACWM ... historians, and the latest scholarship, and distill it into ...
Battle History | Gettysburg PA
Such a move would upset U.S. plans for the summer campaigning season and possibly reduce the pressure on the besieged Confederate garrison at Vicksburg. The ...
Federalist Papers: Primary Documents in American History
The essays were published anonymously, under the pen name "Publius," in various New York state newspapers of the time. The Federalist Papers ...
Religion in the Civil War: The Southern Perspective, Divining ...
In fact, the South claimed to be a uniquely Christian nation. The new Confederate Constitution, adopted on February 8, 1861, and ratified on March 11, 1861, ...
""I nevertheless am a historian": Digital Historical Practice and Malpr ...
... historians with new opportunities and ... Copyright Statement. This document was originally published by University of Michigan Press in Writing History ...
Why Confederate statues fail to represent Southern history - The Hill
The Civil War was about conflict within the Confederacy and within the United States. But statues of Confederate soldiers erase those conflicts ...
Inaugural Address (1861): Confederate States of America
In his inaugural address, Davis explained secession by referring to the argument of the Declaration of Independence that government must be by the consent of ...
Lewis Rutherford: A Confederate - Historian's New South Creed - jstor
annual speech, which she then published in pamphlet form and pro- moted as ... United States History," 21-28. 34 Mildred Lewis Rutherford, Where the ...
Strange Career of Confederate History Month - Oxford Academic
Civil War in Virginia Month has taken its place. As we go to press, Virginia Governor Robert F. McDonnell is expected to issue a proclamation ...
Reconstruction in Mississippi, 1865-1876 - 2006-05
... history. W. E. B. Du Bois, the African American scholar who wrote Black Reconstruction in America (published in 1935) in order to challenge the racist ...
Opinion | Why Was It So Hard for Nikki Haley to Say "Slavery"? Civil ...
Even Confederate veterans like Hunter McGuire knew that to admit the war had been about slavery would “hold us degraded rather than worthy of ...
History of Arlington National Cemetery
In 1900, Congress authorized a designated section for Confederate soldiers, at a time when the nation was trying to reconcile after the Civil War. The ...
Virginia school board restores Confederate names
... recent decision, Virginia ... Others view the Confederacy as defenders of slavery and a foundational aspect of America's history of racism.
The War on Truth: History They Don't Want You to Know
... history of the United States is not new. Any high schooler who has ... In the South, the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) launched ...
W. E. B. Du Bois Reflects on the Purpose of History
How the facts of American history have in the last half century been falsified because the nation was ashamed. The South was ashamed because it ...
1863: The Changing Nature of the War | US History I (OS Collection)
With a stated goal of bolstering national security in the fledgling republic, this change meant that the Confederacy could arrest and detain indefinitely any ...
Historian explores how Civil War Northerners reconciled treason ...
Confederate President Jefferson Davis, left, and Gen. Robert E. Lee were traitors under the U.S. Constitution's definition of treason, according ...
Gordon S. Wood on "The Articles of Confederation and the ...
Dunning Prize in 1970, and The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992), which won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1993. His latest book, Empire of ...
Period 5: 1848-1877 (AP US History)
5.3: The Union victory in the Civil War and the contested reconstruction of the South settled the issues of slavery and secession, but left ...
The War That Made America | Caroline E. Janney - UNC Press
Edited by Caroline E. Janney, Peter S. Carmichael, Aaron Sheehan-Dean · Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-7889-4. Published: March 2024 · Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-7888 ...