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In Marital Cruelty in Antebellum America, Robin C. Sager probes the struggles of aggrieved spouses, shedding light on the nature of marriage and violence in the United States in the decades prior to the Civil War. Analyzing more than 1,500 divorce records that reveal intimate details of marriages in conflict in Virgina, Texas, and Wisconsin from 1840 to 1860, Sager offers a rare glimpse into the private lives of ordinary Americans shaken by accusations...
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In December 1860, South Carolinians voted to abandon the Union, sparking the deadliest war in American history. Led by a proslavery movement that viewed Abraham Lincoln's place at the helm of the federal government as a real and present danger to the security of the South, southerners--both slaveholders and nonslaveholders--willingly risked civil war by seceding from the United States. Radical proslavery activists contended that without defending...
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"The 73 essays in "The Enduring Civil War" grew out of an invitation to Gary Gallagher by a well-known Civil War history magazine to write a series of brief essays on a variety of topics related to the history of the war and era. The subjects Gallagher chose to write about over the following years highlight the complexity and richness of the war, from its origins to its memory, as topics for study, contemplation, and dispute. They place contemporary...
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"The Civilian War explores home front encounters between elite Confederate women and Union soldiers during Sherman's March, a campaign that put women at the center of a Union army operation for the first time. Ordered to crush the morale as well as the military infrastructure of the Confederacy, Sherman and his army increasingly targeted wealthy civilians in their progress through Georgia and the Carolinas. To drive home the full extent of northern...
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