My wife asked the other day why I seemed so interested recently in the self-evident absurdity of "Black Confederates." The short, pragmatic answer is that I'm teaching a course on the US Civil War era this fall, and I plan to spend no small amount...
Civil War
You'll all be stunned to learn that the Sons of Confederate Veterans have laid claim to the grave of another selfless bondsman who loved his master so very much that.
Drew Gilpin Faust's Republic of Suffering is about memory and the Civil War, but not in the conventionally understood fashion. Although Faust writes a bit about the memory of the.