That’s the title of The New York Times’ series on The Civil War, which is highly recommended. Here’s a great entry on Virginia, the (relatively) urbanized and cosmopolitan “North of the South” during the late Antebellum period.
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This blog was put in my RSS reader about a month and a half ago. An excellent blog that gives a day by day accounting of what happened exactly 150 years ago as our nation tore itself apart. I love how they use primary accounts of the events and then add in other bits like the article that you linked to.Report
Yeah, I’m particularly interested by their choices of authors. One of their most prolific contributors seems to be a high school history teacher.Report