"While in the short term--militarily--the North won the Civil War, in the long term--ideologically--victory went to the South. The continual expansion of the Western frontier allowed a Southern oligarchic ideology to find a new home and take root. Even with the abolition of slavery and the equalizing power of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, and the ostensible equalizing of economic opportunity afforded by Western expansion, anti-democratic practices were deeply embedded in the country's foundations, in which the rhetoric of equality struggled against the power of money. As the settlers from the East pushed into the West, so too did all of its hierarchies, reinforced by the seizure of Mexican lands at the end of the Mexican-American War and violence toward Native Americans. Both the South and the West depended on extractive industries--cotton in the former and mining and oil in the latter--giving rise to the creation of a white business elite"--
The classic novel of speculative history, showing how the South could have won the Civil War, is accompanied by the author's essay on his work.
A military historian and author of How Wars Are Won looks at the costly errors that cost the South victory during the Civil War and outlines the tactical and strategic approaches the Confederacy should have used that could have changed the ...
The distinguished professors of history represented in this volume examine the following crucial factors in the South’s defeat: ECONOMIC—RICHARD N. CURRENT of the University of Wisconsin attributes the victory of the North to ...
The book is a fact based narrative, based on the historical record, of Southern policy commencing with the British colony at Charleston, South Carolina, in 1670.
Morris, ed., Encyclopedia of American History, pp. 251–52. Ellis Paxton Oberholtzer, A History of the United States Since the Civil War, vol. 3 (New York: Macmillan, 1926), pp. 144–61. McDonald, Whiskey Ring, pp. 17–18, 139–40, 338–46.
The Army of the Confederacy grew thin while Union dinner tables groaned and Northern canning operations kept Grant's army strong. In Starving the South, Andrew Smith takes a gastronomical look at the war's outcome and legacy.
AL to Elihu B. Washburne, February 9, 1855, LC. Donald, Lincoln, pp. 178–185. 21. Donald, Lincoln, pp. 187–188. 22. Richard B. Morris, ed., Encyclopedia of American History (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1953), p. 220. 23.
Roger Lowenstein reveals the largely untold story of how Lincoln used the urgency of the Civil War to transform a union of states into a nation.
The name of the weapon is the AK-47.... Selected by the Science Fiction Book Club A Main Selection of the Military Book Club
Richmond Daily Dispatch , March 8 , 9 , 10 , 1865 ; Silver , Confederate Morale and Church Propaganda , 53 , 66-68 ; Tuscaloosa Observer , May 8 , 1865 . 40. Lynchburg Virginian , September 22 , 1864 ; Milledgeville Confederate Union ...