PBS1 个月
The Civil War and emancipation
In his inaugural address, delivered on March 4, 1861, Lincoln proclaimed that it was ... Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more ...
Cambridge University Press2 年
The Cambridge History of the American Civil War
The battles of Virginia, 1861 ... Civil War and Reconstruction, and Southern History. He is the author of The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War (2018), Why Confederates Fought: ...
PBS4 年
Walt Whitman and the Civil War
May 13, 1861. Courtesy ... poems inspired by the war, when Lincoln was assassinated. Whitman was devastated. Just as the book was going to press, he inserted a short new poem about Lincoln's ...
‘Lincoln vs. Davis,’ a lively history of the Civil War’s chief figures
11, 1861. Their differences ... few would have chosen Lincoln. Focusing on the first two years of the Civil War in “Lincoln ...
The New York Times3 年
Disunion: Inside Walt Whitman’s Notebook
Whitman first saw Lincoln when the president-elect visited New York on his way to the White House: on Feb. 19, 1861, he joined ... in Washington during the Civil War, he often stood near the ...
The San Bernardino Sun13 天
‘The American Civil War in the Desert Southwest’ will be topic of Lincoln Memorial ...
Megan Kate Nelson, author of “The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the ...