A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era (Andrew F. Lang - CH) Section-Referance Books disposition of POWs

disposition of POWs

A wonderful compliment to A Strange and Blighted Land and A Vast Sea of Misery

and the war’s effect on civilians in general and women in particular

likely a cog in the underground railroad

Dissolution Wagon

A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era (Andrew F. Lang - CH) Section-Referance Books disposition of POWsby Andrew F. Lang Most mid nineteenth century Americans regarded the United States as an exceptional democratic republic that stood apart from a world seemingly riddled with revolutionary turmoil and aristocratic consolidation. Viewing themselves as distinct from and even superior to other societies, Americans considered their nation an unprecedented experiment in political moderation and constitutional democracy. But as abolitionism in England,