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History of the International System to 1919 (continued)
 
United States Civil War

Civil wars were common in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The civil war in the United States (1861-1865) was especially bloody. What were important factors in determining the course and ultimate outcome of the conflict? What were some of the important battles and events of the war? How did it affect individuals, combatants and noncombatants alike?

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Review essay: Civil War religion--needs and opportunities. While God is Marching On: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers Mitchell Snay.
Civil War History Dec 2003 v49 i4 p388(8) (3370 words)

Wielding the pen: Margaret Preston, Confederate nationalistic literature, and the expansion of a woman's place in the South. Stacey Jean Klein.
Civil War History Sept 2003 v49 i3 p221(15) (6478 words)

They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War. (Book Review) Elizabeth R. Varon.
Civil War History Sept 2003 v49 i3 p282(3) (963 words)

`I HAVE COMMITED A WRONG BY COMING HERE'. (Brief Article) benjamin h. pike.
Civil War Times June 2000 v39 i3 p16 (3955 words)

Lost causes and gallantry: Johnny Reb and the Shadow of Sir Walter. Franklin Burroughs.
American Scholar Autumn 2003 v72 i4 p73(20) (9901 words)

A rejected alternative: Union policy and the relocation of southern "contrabands" at the dawn of emancipation. V. Jacque Voegeli.
Journal of Southern History Nov 2003 v69 i4 p765(26) (12024 words)

"Baptism in blood": the Civil War and the creation of an American civil religion. (Civil War). Harry S. Stout. Books & Culture July-August 2003 v9 i4 p16(5) (6601 words)

I HAVE COMMITED A WRONG BY COMING HERE'. (Brief Article) benjamin h. pike. Civil War Times June 2000 v39 i3 p16 (3955 words)

BEYOND GETTYSBURG. (Brief Article) patrice crowley. Civil War Times June 2000 v39 i3 p18 (2868 words)

THE REGULARS. (Brief Article) michael huebner. Civil War Times June 2000 v39 i3 p24 (5043 words)

THE IRON TURTLE. (Brief Article) donald I. barnhart jr.. Civil War Times June 2000 v39 i3 p46 (4007 words)

McClellan and Halleck at war: the struggle for control of the union war effort in the West, November 1861-March 1862. (George Brinton McClellan; Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck) Ethan S. Rafuse.
Civil War History March 2003 v49 i1 p32(21)

Chronicler of the Southern soldier: confederate correspondent Peter Wellington Alexander provided a vivid glimpse of war's horrors and brutalities with his dispatches from the front lines of the Civil War. (The nation: the civil war). Stephen Goode. Insight on the News Feb 4, 2003 v19 i4 p35(5)

The Christian Soldier: General Thomas J. `Stonewall' Jackson: James I. Robertson, Jr. looks at the man behind the legendary Confederate hero. (Biography) James I. Robertson Jr.. History Today Feb 2003 v53 i2 p29(7) Mag.Coll.: 112J0476.

Civil War Unionists and the political culture of loyalty in Alabama, 1860-1861. Margaret M. Storey. Journal of Southern History Feb 2003 v69 i1 p71(36)

Civil War Sleuths. (influential spies, for both sides, during the Civil War) Andrew Curry. U.S. News & World Report Jan 27, 2003 p55 Mag.Coll.: 112J1694. Bus.Coll.: 142Y2397.

Seldom thanked, never praised, and scarcely recognized: gender and racism in Civil War hospitals. Jane E. Schultz. Civil War History Sept 2002 v48 i3 p220(18)

Posterity's blush: civil liberties, property rights, and property confiscation in the confederacy. Brian R. Dirck. Civil War History Sept 2002 v48 i3 p237(21)

The Collapse of the Confederacy. Edward R. Crowther. Civil War History Sept 2002 v48 i3 p260(2)

To the North Anna River: Grant and Lee, May 13-25, 1864. Noah Andre Trudeau. Civil War History Sept 2002 v48 i3 p261(2)

Lincoln's Cavalrymen: A History of the Mounted Forces of the Army of the Potomac. Ethan S. Rafuse. Civil War History Sept 2002 v48 i3 p263(1)

A Union Woman in Civil War Kentucky: the Diary of Frances Peter. W. Scott Poole. Civil War History Sept 2002 v48 i3 p265(3)

The Lincoln Enigma: the Changing Faces of an American Icon. Elizabeth Alice White. Civil War History Sept 2002 v48 i3 p273(2)

The Blockade Board of 1861 and Union naval strategy. Kevin J. Weddle. Civil War History June 2002 v48 i2 p123(21)

The emergence of a suffragist: Mary Livermore, Civil War activism, and the moral power of women. Wendy Hamand Venet. Civil War History June 2002 v48 i2 p143(23)

A contest of contrasts: the principle of dislocation and the artillery fight at the Battle of Chancellorsville. (The Civil War). (United States history) G. James Schreckengost. FA Journal May-August 2002 v7 i3 p45(5)

Guerrilla warfare, democracy, and the fate of the confederacy. Daniel E. Sutherland. Journal of Southern History May 2002 v68 i2 p259(34)

Flag culture and the consolidation of confederate nationalism. Robert E. Bonner. Journal of Southern History May 2002 v68 i2 p293(40)

Turning points in the U.S. Civil War: Views from the grayback market. Marc D. Weidenmier. Southern Economic Journal April 2002 v68 i4 p875(16) Bus.Coll.: 139V0280.

Nations of American rebels: understanding nationalism in Revolutionary North America and the Civil War South. Benjamin L. Carp. Civil War History March 2002 v48 i1 p5(30)

Roundheaded cavaliers? The context and limits of a confederate racial project. (influence of English Civil War in Confederate South) Robert B. Bonner. Civil War History March 2002 v48 i1 p34(27)

Eli Landers: letters of a Confederate soldier. (American Civil War) Stephanie Wasta, Carolyn Lott. Social Education March 2002 v66 i2 p122(8)

Abraham Lincoln: the president who changed the role of commander-in-chief. (Scholarship). Frank J. Williams. White House Studies Wntr 2002 v2 i1 p3(14)

Battle time: Gender, modernity, and confederate hospitals. Cheryl A. Wells. Journal of Social History Winter 2001 v35 i2 p409(22)

"The sport of folly and the prize of treason": confederate property seizures and the northern home front in the secession crisis. Silvana R. Siddali. Civil War History Dec 2001 v47 i4 p310(25)

Feelin' mighty southern: recent scholarship on Southern Appalachia in the Civil War. Noel Fisher. Civil War History Dec 2001 v47 i4 p334(14)

Chronicles of Black Courage. (African American Confederate sailor Robert Smalls) Lerone Bennett Jr.. Ebony Nov 2001 v57 i1 p158 Mag.Coll.: 110F2127.

"Oh, God, What a Pity!": The Irish Brigade at Fredericksburg and the Creation of Myth. CRAIG A. WARREN. Civil War History Sept 2001 v47 i3 p193

Southern Nationalism. (United States Civil War) Charles Oliver. Reason August 2001 v33 i4 p77 Mag.Coll.: 107J3194.

American Civil War: "The Fatal Blunder of the Day". (artillery deployment at Bull Run) Gary J. Schreckengost. FA Journal July 2001 v6 i4 p22

Remembrances from the Civil War. (African American author writes about the Civil War and slavery) Louise Meriwether. Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire Summer-Fall 2001 v3 i3 p181(6)

Kady Brownell, a Rhode Island legend. (Articles). Sara Bartlett. Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military Summer 2001 v19 i2 p39(20)

"Frictions": Shipboard Relations between White and Contraband Sailors. MICHAEL J. BENNETT. Civil War History June 2001 v47 i2 p118

The American Civil War. (specimen examination question and answer) Mark Waldron. Modern History Review April 2001 v12 i4 p26(2)

"The Deadly Influence of Negro Capitalists": Southern Yeomen and Resistance to the Expansion of Slavery in Illinois. SUZANNE COOPER GUASCO. Civil War History March 2001 v47 i1 p7

Exempt from the Ordinary Rules of Life: Researching Postwar Adjustment Problems of Union Veterans. JAMES MARTEN. Civil War History March 2001 v47 i1 p57

The Confederate Naval Buildup. (civil war of 1865) David G. Surdam. Naval War College Review Wntr 2001 v54 i1 p107

The Confederacy Could Have Won -- Unconventionally: A Thought Experiment for Special Warriors. (civil war in the United States) Dr. John Arquilla. Special Warfare Wntr 2001 v14 i1 p10

THE SMITHSONIAN ABOLITION LECTURE CONTROVERSY: THE CLASH OF ANTISLAVERY POLITICS WITH AMERICAN SCIENCE IN WARTIME WASHINGTON. Michael F. Conlin. Civil War History Dec 2000 v46 i4 p300

Lincoln and the Abolitionists. Allen C. Guelzo. The Wilson Quarterly Autumn 2000 v24 i4 p58

ROBERT E. LEE: POSTWAR SOUTHERN NATIONALIST. Michael Fellman. Civil War History Sept 2000 v46 i3 p185

REVOLUTION OR COUNTERREVOLUTION?: THE POLITICAL IDEOLOGY OF SECESSION IN ANTEBELLUM SOUTH CAROLINA. Manisha Sinha. Civil War History Sept 2000 v46 i3 p205

FOR GOD & COUNTRY WHY MEN JOINED UP FOR THE US CIVIL WAR. Susan-Mary Grant. History Today July 2000 v50 i7 p20

THROUGH WHITE EYES: THE 154th NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS AND AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN THE CIVIL WAR. Mark H. Dunkelman. The Journal of Negro History Summer 2000 v85 i3 p96

COUNT THEM TOO: AFRICAN AMERICANS FROM DELAWARE AND THE UNITED STATES CIVIL WAR NAVY, 1861-1865. Sellano L. Simmons. The Journal of Negro History Summer 2000 v85 i3 p183

THE SENTIMENTAL SOLDIER IN POPULAR CIVIL WAR LITERATURE, 1861-65. Alice Fahs. Civil War History June 2000 v46 i2 p107

NO UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER: THE HISTORIAN AS THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE MAN, DON E. FEHRENBACHER. Gabor Boritt. Civil War History June 2000 v46 i2 p148

THE SURRENDER AT APPOMATTOX. horace c. porter. Civil War Times May 2000 v39 i2 p26

'NO RETREAT WAS EVER POSSIBLE'. Jeffery D. Wert. Civil War Times May 2000 v39 i2 p32

'WE SHALL NEVER ANY OF US BE THE SAME'. PETER S. CARMICHAEL. Civil War Times May 2000 v39 i2 p46

WHY THE NORTH WON AND THE SOUTH LOST. ALBERT CASTEL. Civil War Times May 2000 v39 i2 p56

After killing a fellow officer, Union Brig. Gen. Jefferson C. Davis got off with little more than a reprimand. Rhonda Abner. Military History April 2000 v17 i1 p12

SIDESHOW NO LONGER: A HISTORIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW OF THE GUERRILLA WAR. Daniel E. Sutherland. Civil War History March 2000 v46 i1 p5

"THE SPIRIT OF HATE" AND FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Richard H. White. Civil War History March 2000 v46 i1 p41

Jefferson Davis and the Jews. PEGGY ROBBINS. Civil War Times March 2000 v39 i1 p52

The Great Escape. (Confederate General John Hunt Morgan escapes from Ohio State Penitentiary during Civil War)(Ohio State Penitentiary) Wyatt Kingseed. American History Feb 2000 v34 i6 p25 Mag.Coll.: 101G0456.
 
         
         
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