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ATLANTA (AP) - This week marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Atlanta, one of the key conflicts of the Civil War, and researchers at Emory University's Center for Digital Scholarship have ...
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
Fort Delaware, painted circa 1870 by Seth Eastman. Slavery had been a divisive issue in Delaware for decades before the American Civil War began. Opposition to slavery in Delaware, imported from Quaker-dominated Pennsylvania, led many slaveowners to free their slaves; half of the state's black population was free by 1810, and more than 90% were free by 1860.
Foner, Eric et al. "Talking Civil War History: A Conversation with Eric Foner and James McPherson," Australasian Journal of American Studies (2011) 30#2 pp. 1–32 in JSTOR; Ford, Lacy, ed. A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction Blackwell, 2005) online; Grow, Matthew. "The shadow of the civil war: A historiography of civil war memory."
Yale professor says Memorial Day’s origins can be traced to a Black parade held in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1865. The post From the Civil War to today’s mattress sales, Memorial Day is ...
The Impact of Civil War and Reconstruction on Arkansas: Persistence in the Midst of Ruin University of Arkansas Press (1994) [7] Arkansas and the New South 1874–1929 The University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville (1997) [8] Texas after the Civil War : the struggle of Reconstruction Texas A & M University Press (2004)
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The economic history of the American Civil War concerns the financing of the Union and Confederate war efforts from 1861 to 1865, and the economic impact of the war. The Union economy grew and prospered during the war while fielding a very large Union Army and Union Navy . [ 1 ]