Penulis: Brian Craig Miller

"An important read for anyone trying to sort through the current social and political controversy over the question of how do we memorialize the Civil War." -Strategy Page Dividing the nati …

“It is well that war is so terrible, ” Robert E. Lee reportedly said, “or we would grow too fond of it.” The essays collected here make the case that we have grown too fond of it, and therefore we mu …

The Civil War acted like a battering ram on human beings, shattering both flesh and psyche of thousands of soldiers. Despite popular perception that doctors recklessly erred on the side of amputation …

Dividing the nation for four years, the American Civil War resulted in 750, 000 casualties and forever changed the country’s destiny. The conflict continues to resonate in our collective memory, and …

The preoccupations and sentiments of a common soldier caught in the most traumatic conflict in American history Private Silas W. Haven, a native New Englander transplanted to Iowa, enlisted in 1862 t …

Household War restores the centrality of households to the American Civil War. The essays in the volume complicate the standard distinctions between battlefront and homefront, soldier and civilian, a …

The preoccupations and sentiments of a common soldier caught in the most traumatic conflict in American history Private Silas W. Haven, a native New Englander transplanted to Iowa, enlisted in 1862 t …