For this reason, the government turned away African American voluteers who ... But the purpose of the Civil War had now changed. The North was not only fighting to preserve the Union, it was ...

The Confederacy had exhausted its resources, and the landscape of the American South was destroyed ... The Lost Cause also ...

This study of Civil War–era politics explores how German immigrants influenced the rise and fall of white commitment to African-American rights. Intertwining developments in Europe and North America, ...

Ross - University of Maryland ‘This is an important addition to the literature on American social and legal history. Edwards shows how the Civil War forever changed the conception of the Constitution, ...

Want to visit the site where the surrender documents were signed during the American Civil War? Don't miss this must-see ...

4:1 — The ratio of people who attended church weekly to those who voted in the 1860 election 2.5 — Approximate percentage of the American population that died in the Civil War 7 million ...

Andrew: The north mourned an immortal political hero. In the south they celebrated. One Texan newspaper professed itself “thrilled by the death of our oppressor." The American Civil War left a ...

TWO former Offaly footballers have set up a new website on Offaly exiles who fought in the American Civil War in the 1860s.