A Very American Jihad: Our Barely Civil War

Unconventional Warfare in the American Civil War

Veterinary medicine and the American Civil War.

Cowards and Heroes: Group Loyalty in the American Civil War

What motivated men to risk death in the most horrific war in U.S. history when pay was low and irregular and military punishment strategies were weak? In such a situation creating group loyalty by promoting social capital is of paramount importance and in the Civil War was the cement of both armies. We find that individual and company socio-economic and demographic characteristics, ideology, an...

Patriotic Toil: Northern Women and the American Civil War

Afro-American Identity: Reflections on the Pre-Civil War Era

I am told that there are Haitians able to trace their ancestry back to African kings. but any American Negro wishing to go back so far will find his journey through time abruptly arrested by the signature on the bill ofsale which served as the entrance paper for his ancestor. At the time-to say nothing ofthe circumstances-ofthe enslavement ofthe captive black man who was to become the American ...