In The Strange and Tragic Wounds of George Cole’s America: A Tale of Manhood, Sex, and Ambition in the Civil War Era, Michael deGruccio discovers a generation betrayed by the fight for freedom.
Fighting for the Union in the US Civil War, Welsh soldiers discovered that the cost of assimilation was the loss of their native language.
What did British officers think of the American Civil War as it was happening?
The first Native American troops to enlist for Federal service were fighting to return to their own lands.
The 19th-century craze for spiritualism ‘resurrected’ the dead through manipulated photographs, a practice that boomed with the trauma caused by war – though it was not without its sceptics.
A new term inadvertently changed the way people thought about runaway slaves.
John Brown, the abolitionist firebrand, remains a potent figure in the United States’ febrile politics of race.
A miniature Emancipation Proclamation helped to recruit Black soldiers during the Civil War.
Have dominant narratives of the American Civil War been detrimental to its emancipatory promise?
William T. Sherman’s reputation precedes him.
