The Left-Armed Corps: Writings by Amputee Civil War Veterans

Liberty and the Right of Resistance: Women’s Political Writings of the English Civil War Era

[Please note that this is an earlier version of a published paper: Jacqueline Broad, ‘Liberty and the Right of Resistance: Women’s Political Writings of the English Civil War Era’, in Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration: Political Ideas of European Women, 1400-1800, edited by Jacqueline Broad and Karen Green (Dordrecht: Springer, 2007), pp. 77-94. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5895-0_5....

Physical and mental health costs of traumatic war experiences among Civil War veterans.

BACKGROUND Hundreds of thousands of soldiers face exposure to combat during wars across the globe. The health effects of traumatic war experiences have not been adequately assessed across the lifetime of these veterans. OBJECTIVE To identify the role of traumatic war experiences in predicting postwar nervous and physical disease and mortality using archival data from military and medical reco...

Sixty Million Acres: American Veterans and the Public Lands Before the Civil War

Sixty Million Acres: American Veterans and the Public Lands Before the Civil War

The Last English Civil War

This essay examines why England experienced a civil war every fifty years from the Norman Conquest up until the Glorious Revolution of 1688–1689, and was completely stable after that point. The reasons had to do with, first, the slow accumulation of law and respect for the law that had occurred by the seventeenth century, and second, with the emergence of a strong English state and sense of nat...